Public safety and other licensees who don’t follow an FCC mandate to move to narrowband channels face sanctions by the agency, said Roberto Mussenden, an attorney in the Public Safety Bureau, during the commission’s narrowbanding workshop Wednesday. The workshop ended early because of the threat of snow in the Washington area.
Despite a $176 million budget gap, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin proposed $13 million in capital spending over the next two years to improve high-speed Internet and cellphone coverage, the Democrat governor said during his presentation of the state budget Tuesday. He also proposed easing pole attachment regulations. Meanwhile, state Senator Vince Illuzzi (R), who opposed the sale of Verizon lines to FairPoint in 2007, is drafting a bill that would deregulate FairPoint, he said in an interview.
The FCC gave LightSquared on Wednesday the regulatory go-ahead that could allow terrestrial service in spectrum allocated for mobile satellite service. The waiver from the International Bureau comes with several conditions meant to allay interference concerns raised by GPS providers and federal agencies, which use neighboring spectrum. The waiver applies to rules that prevent MSS/ancillary terrestrial component licensees from offering terrestrial-only service. LightSquared plans to lease its L-band spectrum wholesale to customers that would be allowed to sell terrestrial-only service. The ability to provide the terrestrial-only service is widely viewed as a necessity for LightSquared’s service to succeed financially. The company is hoped to add competition to the wireless market.
The Census Bureau has issued a proposed rule to amend the Foreign Trade Regulations (FTR, 15 CFR Part 30) to modify the post-departure filing program (also referred to as Option 4) by changing the filing time frame to five calendar days (from ten) and only allowing post-departure reporting for certain listed approved commodities.
GENEVA -- Mobile satellite service proponents are pressing administrations to wait for crucial feasibility studies on possible sharing arrangements in some of the six bands under consideration for allocations at WRC-12. ITU-R studies on providing broadband MSS service to land, maritime and aeronautical users using small directional antennas showed the need for much more spectrum than is currently available, the draft WRC-12 report said. The spectrum would ensure broadband availability in most areas, it said.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Significant opportunities are said to await Internet service providers as smart grid deployment expands and consumers have the option to monitor and manage their home energy usage. While utilities wrestle with new models of interacting with consumers in a two-way environment, giving consumers control in what has been a decidedly one-way relationship, telcos and cable companies are hoping to grab a bit of the smart grid action.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Significant opportunities are said to await Internet service providers as smart grid deployment expands and consumers have the option to monitor and manage their home energy usage. While utilities wrestle with new models of interacting with consumers in a two-way environment, giving consumers control in what has been a decidedly one-way relationship, telcos and cable companies are hoping to grab a bit of the smart grid action.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Significant opportunities are said to await Internet service providers as smart grid deployment expands and consumers have the option to monitor and manage their home energy usage. While utilities wrestle with new models of interacting with consumers in a two-way environment, giving consumers control in what has been a decidedly one-way relationship, telcos and cable companies are hoping to grab a bit of the smart grid action.
The Census Bureau has issued a proposed rule to amend the Foreign Trade Regulations (15 CFR Part 30) to modify the post-departure filing program (also referred to as Option 4) by changing the filing time frame to five calendar days (from ten calendar days) and only allowing post-departure reporting for certain listed approved commodities.
The Census Bureau has issued a proposed rule to amend the Foreign Trade Regulations (15 CFR Part 30) to modify the post-departure filing program (also referred to as Option 4) by changing the filing time frame to five calendar days (from ten calendar days) and only allowing post-departure reporting for certain listed approved commodities.