U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted its new Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) minimum-security criteria for air carriers, which are effective as of November 14, 2007.
GENEVA -- New aeronautical, flight-testing and earth exploration allocations were given a preliminary nod Tuesday at the World Radiocommunication Conference, officials said. Questions about mobile satellite frequencies, aeronautical mobile and unmanned aerial systems are teed up for the next WRC, in 2011.
The software industry still faces “a big challenge” with piracy in China, but Microsoft is “a good deal more optimistic about the future” for dealing with the issue than it was “two or three years ago,” Brad Smith, senior vice president of Microsoft legal and corporate affairs, told the company’s annual meeting Tuesday in Seattle.
The software industry still faces “a big challenge” with piracy in China, but Microsoft is “a good deal more optimistic about the future” for dealing with the issue than it was “two or three years ago,” Brad Smith, senior vice president of Microsoft legal and corporate affairs, told the company’s annual meeting Tuesday in Seattle.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that the seventh group of land border ports to become mandatory for the Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes will be those in Alaska (Alcan, Dalton Cache, and Skagway) effective February 11, 2008.
The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council issued Tuesday its revised 700 MHz statement of requirements (CD Nov 9 p7). The council’s 53-page document details what it believes is required in the interoperable broadband network to be built by the 700 MHz D-block licensee using the 10 MHz nationwide commercial license and 12 MHz of public-safety spectrum. The council “recognizes the reality that implementation of features, functions, and performance standards will be neither immediate nor without challenge,” it said. The network will ultimately be judged on “the speed and quality” of public-safety’s response, it said. The requirements list the areas subject to negotiation before a network sharing agreement can be signed. Providing constant support for the network and devices is one of the requirements. The D-block licensee won’t be able to average out a prolonged outage, the document said. The licensee will be required to set up multiple network operations centers. Public safety must be able to monitor network operations, the council said. Public safety will be able to monitor and record “public-safety applications/service sessions,” it said. “Note that public safety will not likely be able to differentiate personal from work-related communications.” The new system must be hardened “with the same level of robustness as current public-safety land-mobile radio,” the council said, but it would allow the hardening to be phased. How long the D-block licensee will have to restore service following an outage will be negotiated in the network sharing agreement, the group said. The initial draft released in late October was reviewed by more than 256,000 public-safety representatives and attracted more than 400 comments, it said.
The Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition (FWCC) asked the FCC to issue a rulemaking that would make two channel pairs available to fixed wireless users in the 23 GHz band. The group noted in its petition for rulemaking the FCC would only be implementing a recommendation of NTIA. FWCC said since the proposal “will not disadvantage any party” the FCC should bypass seeking comments on its petition and go directly to release of a notice of proposed rulemaking on its own motion.
Cellphone tower companies that prioritize fiber access will get more business from wireless operators as carriers roll out WiMAX, HSPA and other bandwidth-demanding wireless services, alternative backhaul provider officials told Communications Daily. Though carriers and backhaul providers are studying copper alternatives to fiber and microwave to increase bandwidth at cell sites, tower real estate teams are still more focused on cutting costs, said Jason Jesseph, Level 3 business relations director. “The real estate team goes out and drives around and they look at… Kwik-E-Marts and corn fields and wherever else they think they can stick a tower,” Jesseph said in an interview. “They find the cheapest land they can and that’s where they put it. Nowhere in that decision process is access to a fiber optic network considered.”
The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.):
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice to its Web site announcing that the first fiscal year 2008 specialty sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ) (i.e. tranche) that opened on October 24, 2007 oversubscribed at opening moment. The pro-rata percentage is .1687649 or 16.87649%.