Ahead of a meeting of the "Three Amigos" -- the presidents of the U.S. and Mexico and the prime minister of Canada -- Jan. 9-10, business groups that advocate for North American integration said during a Jan. 6 webinar that they're hoping to see more evidence of nearshoring and using North American resources to diversify away from China.
A new FCC approach on how it calculates satellite constellation collision risks, used in its partial approval of SpaceX's second-generation constellation, is raising some space expert concerns, especially since it's seen as a possible harbinger of how the FCC might look at collision risk for future constellations. Viasat petitioned the commission to clarify aspects of that SpaceX authorization granted in November (see 2212010052). The agency and SpaceX didn't comment.
The Federal Maritime Commission denied a Chinese freight forwarder’s motion to dismiss a complaint that said the forwarder delayed 20 container shipments in order to submit higher detention and demurrage invoices (see 2210250021). The FMC’s chief administrative law judge Jan. 4 ordered China-based Shenzhen Unifelix to submit a response to the complaint by Jan. 20, requiring the company to also answer charges levied by U.S.-based Way Interglobal Network that Unifelix tried to change the terms of a signed service contract.
Ahead of a meeting of the "Three Amigos" -- the presidents of the U.S. and Mexico and the prime minister of Canada -- Jan. 9-10, business groups that advocate for North American integration said during a Jan. 6 webinar that they're hoping to see more evidence of nearshoring and using North American resources to diversify away from China.
The U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois in East St. Louis should reject arguments by Monroe County, Illinois, that AT&T waited too long to challenge the timeliness of the municipality’s denial of its cell tower application (see 2212200022), said the carrier’s reply brief Tuesday (docket 3:20-cv-01327).
The Federal Maritime Commission denied a Chinese freight forwarder’s motion to dismiss a complaint that said the forwarder delayed 20 container shipments in order to submit higher detention and demurrage invoices (see 2210250021). The FMC’s chief administrative law judge Jan. 4 ordered China-based Shenzhen Unifelix to submit a response to the complaint by Jan. 20, requiring the company to also answer charges levied by U.S.-based Way Interglobal Network that Unifelix tried to change the terms of a signed service contract.
The feud over whether content providers should pay for use of telco networks ratcheted up after Deutsche Telekom (DT) sued Meta for compensation and European internet exchange points urged the European Commission not to regulate fees. The two sides published dueling reports last year, and the EC promised to launch a consultation on the matter (see 2210130001).
The Commerce Department illegally failed to give exporter Goodluck India a chance to request a review after it was reinstated as subject to an antidumping duty order, Goodluck argued in a Jan. 3 motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade. After the trade court settled a jurisdictional issue in the case, the exporter in a new motion for judgment argued that Commerce violated the law by assessing duties at the adverse facts available rate and deciding that the AFA cash deposit rate became effective on Sept. 10, 2021 -- 10 days after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit provisionally revoked the order as to Goodluck (Goodluck India Limited v. United States, CIT # 22-00024).
Sirius XM Radio asked the FCC to address issues it raised in a recent petition for rulemaking on certification test procedures for Part 20 wideband consumer signal boosters (WCSBs). “Although the current WCSB test procedures provide a so-called ‘band verification test,’ they do not protect licensees in and around these bands from interference,” SiriusXM said in a filing posted Wednesday in docket 10-4: “As a result, WCSBs that are sold for international operations may be properly tested and legally certified for the U.S. market despite having the inherent capability of unlawful operations in the forbidden [commercial mobile radio service] bands.” The filing said the petition “seeks to eliminate this incongruity in the law whereby WCSBs capable of operating outside their authorized bands are eligible for FCC certification, yet ineligible for marketing under the rules and polices” of the Enforcement Bureau.
The FCC's Q4 2022 universal service contribution factor proceeding isn't the right venue for challenging the constitutionality of the entire universal service fund regime, and Section 254 of the Communications Act "easily" answers questions about whether Congress wrongly delegated its lawmaking power by limiting and guiding the FCC's universal service implementation, the agency told the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Dec. 22. In a docket 22-13315 reply to a challenge to the USF (see 2211220075), the FCC said the 11th Circuit also lacks jurisdiction because the suit is attempting "an end-run" around time limits for challenging an agency rule. Counsel for the petitioners didn't comment Friday.