Verizon and AT&T clashed on whether the FCC should consider rules to guarantee interoperability as a fundamental responsibility of FirstNet. Comments appeared through Friday (see 1909110062) in docket 19-254 on Colorado's Boulder Regional Emergency Telephone Service Authority (BRETSA) petitions for declaratory ruling or rulemaking. AT&T won a contract to build FirstNet, and Verizon pursues public safety customers for its own network (see 1808140036).
Unmanned aircraft system spectrum is among the topics the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee will study as it gets to work Tuesday, said a document released last week by NTIA. CSMAC last met in July 2018 (see 1807240057) and once appeared in danger of disappearing entirely (see 1903280060). UAS spectrum will be studied by one of the four subcommittees that will develop reports for CSMAC.
Unmanned aircraft system spectrum is among the topics the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee will study as it gets to work Tuesday, said a document released last week by NTIA. CSMAC last met in July 2018 (see 1807240057) and once appeared in danger of disappearing entirely (see 1903280060). UAS spectrum will be studied by one of the four subcommittees that will develop reports for CSMAC.
No matter how sophisticated technology for combating deep fakes and disinformation is, it’s useless without buy-in from large tech platforms, which profit from the rise of sensational content, the House Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee heard Thursday. The worry is companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are more focused on growth than oversight and user support functions, said Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va. Platforms disclaim responsibility for user content and have a disincentive to purge fake and bot accounts, she said. Wexton cited a July 2018 report on how Twitter’s stock dropped 8.5 percent after it purged 70 million suspicious accounts over two months. Twitter shares increased about 20 percent between January and December 2018.
No matter how sophisticated technology for combating deep fakes and disinformation is, it’s useless without buy-in from large tech platforms, which profit from the rise of sensational content, the House Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee heard Thursday. The worry is companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are more focused on growth than oversight and user support functions, said Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va. Platforms disclaim responsibility for user content and have a disincentive to purge fake and bot accounts, she said. Wexton cited a July 2018 report on how Twitter’s stock dropped 8.5 percent after it purged 70 million suspicious accounts over two months. Twitter shares increased about 20 percent between January and December 2018.
No matter how sophisticated technology for combating deep fakes and disinformation is, it’s useless without buy-in from large tech platforms, which profit from the rise of sensational content, the House Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee heard Thursday. The worry is companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are more focused on growth than oversight and user support functions, said Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va. Platforms disclaim responsibility for user content and have a disincentive to purge fake and bot accounts, she said. Wexton cited a July 2018 report on how Twitter’s stock dropped 8.5 percent after it purged 70 million suspicious accounts over two months. Twitter shares increased about 20 percent between January and December 2018.
NCTA asked the FCC to act on examining rules for the 5.9 GHz band and sharing with unlicensed. “In recent letters, supporters of Intelligent Transportation Systems urge the Commission to block access to the 5.9 GHz band for all other uses, and instead, to double down on a failed technology-specific approach to spectrum policy,” NCTA said Wednesday in docket 13-49: “This is nothing more than a renewed attempt to delay FCC action and preserve an unwarranted and underutilized government subsidy.” The Association of Global Automakers, meanwhile, reported on a meeting with aides to Commissioners Mike O’Rielly, Brendan Carr and Jessica Rosenworcel urging an NPRM that emphasizes continuing deploying “life-saving” vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services. “The representatives emphasized the importance of modernizing the 5.9 GHz as a flexible-use band to support increased innovation; prioritizing deployment of 2 million V2X radios within five years; and expediting deployment of a number of V2X radios equivalent to 75 percent of new light vehicles sold in the U.S. within ten years,” the group said in a filing posted Tuesday. Representatives of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs’ Association and National Association of State EMS Officials told the FCC the band should be reserved “exclusively for transportation safety.” The groups, in a meeting with Public Safety Bureau staff, “highlighted the life-saving potential of transportation communication systems to both the public and members of the emergency services.”
The FCC’s Disability Advisory Committee approved a resolution Tuesday urging the FCC to launch a rulemaking on unresolved real-time text technical issues. In December 2016, FCC commissioners approved 5-0 a common standard for the transition from text technology (TTY) to real-time text (RTT) (see 1612150048). DAC members said some tricky issues remain.
The FCC’s Disability Advisory Committee approved a resolution Tuesday urging the FCC to launch a rulemaking on unresolved real-time text technical issues. In December 2016, FCC commissioners approved 5-0 a common standard for the transition from text technology (TTY) to real-time text (RTT) (see 1612150048). DAC members said some tricky issues remain.
Crosscut Strategies hires Charlie Meisch, ex-SKDKnickerbocker and ex-FCC, as senior vice president; Simon Brown, from Small Business Majority, as director; and Caitlin Krutsick, Bipartisan Policy Center, as account specialist; promotes Courtney Lamie to chief operating officer ... In closing buy of Tribune (see 1909200048), Nexstar appoints from there as executive vice presidents Sean Compton, for WGN America and WGN Radio, also director-content acquisition; Dana Zimmer, also chief distribution and strategy officer; and Gary Weitman, chief communications officer.