The Mid Atlantic Sports Network bought more college sports programming, it said. The station, which just landed carriage on Comcast’s Washington-area system, will show Morgan State, Navy, Howard and Georgetown football games this month, it said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a "draft" deployment schedule of land border ports with ACE e-Manifest: Truck capabilities.
CBP has posted to its Web site a notice announcing a "weekly" special import quota of 23,276,125 kg for upland cotton purchased not later than December 5, 2006 and entered under HTS 9903.52.22. The quota period is September 7, 2006 through March 5, 2007; the opening date is September 7, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. EDT, or its equivalent in other time zones.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted various notices to its Web site as follows:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) commodity report as of August 28, 2006. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain BFTA, CAFTA-DR, JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, CAFTA-DR, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (Chile FTA) tariff preference levels (TPLs) and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 08/28/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
Companies as disparate as SES Americom, Qualcomm, ViaSat and Maritime Telecom Network endorsed a General Dynamics call for the FCC to set rules for vehicle-mounted antennas. They want to widen use of FSS Ku-band for mobile broadband services to consumers and to military and emergency vehicles, they said. General Dynamics in May petitioned for a rulemaking that would ease licensing of such terminals, suggesting the FCC use a framework it set up in 2005 for similar terminals on ships, known as ESVs.
For next-generation formats, the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) show will be much more active than it was last year (CED Sept 2 p1) when the Berlin fair begins its run next week as an annual CE event. That’s because Blu-ray and HD DVD are expected to use the IFA stage to officially launch in Europe.
The Cal. legislature passed a bill to streamline the local approval process for colocating wireless telecom facilities on existing towers and colocating multiple telecom towers on a single site. The bill (SB-1627) sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) would require localities to rule on colocation applications within 90 days of the date that an environmental impact report is completed. Localities would retain the right to deny a colocation permit and any appeals of a local decision would follow the same path as today. The legislation also would prohibit local govts. from imposing preconditions on companies before they can submit a colocation application for a development project, and allows a 10-year time limit on facility colocations for public safety or future land use reasons.
SANTA CLARA, Cal. -- The 3 finalists to build and run a Wi-Fi network for Silicon Valley and beyond “will work with” organizers on privacy objections to their proposals, Project Dir. Seth Fearey of the Wireless Silicon Valley project said Wed.
SANTA CLARA, Cal. -- The 3 finalists to build and run a Wi-Fi network for Silicon Valley and beyond “will work with” organizers on privacy objections to their proposals, Project Dir. Seth Fearey of the Wireless Silicon Valley project said Wed.