State commissioners hope the FCC takes note of coming NARUC resolutions (see 1907100028) on delaying some further changes to a billion dollar federal subsidy for poor people to get phone and broadband services. In interviews before their Sunday-Wednesday meeting to consider two such draft proposals, some expressed optimism the federal regulator might make changes midway through program revisions begun under the last presidential administration. Another telecom resolution, advocating no overall USF budget, lacks a sponsor and won't move forward unless it adds one, stakeholders noted this week.
The FCC Public Safety Bureau deactivated its disaster information reporting system for Tropical Storm Barry Monday at the request of the Department of Homeland Security's National Coordinating Center for Communications and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, it said in docket 19-660 and Tuesday's Daily Digest. The FCC published its final daily communication about the storm earlier Monday (see 1907150050).
Global export controls and international sanctions are not stopping luxury goods from entering North Korea, which is employing a significantly larger smuggling scheme than previously known, according to a July 16 report from the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), a nonprofit research organization in Washington. The 56-page report details how North Korea works with intermediaries, freight forwarders, private financiers and others to smuggle luxury goods into the country. The report also places North Korea’s smuggling system into context: Between 2015 and 2017, at least 90 countries “served as luxury goods procurement sources” for North Korea, the report said.
Public Knowledge promotes Chris Lewis to president-CEO, from which Gene Kimmelman steps down, and Kimmelman moves to senior adviser; also promoted are Eboni Speight to chief operating officer, John Bergmayer to legal director and Phillip Berenbroick to policy director ... BMI promotes David Levin to senior vice president-licensing ... NAB's Zamir Ahmed rises to vice president-media relations ... A+E Networks moves Patrick Vien to group managing director-international; Edward Sabin, who was co-executive managing director with Vien, to move on from A+E.
U.S. consumer tech retail revenue is expected to reach $401 billion this year, said CTA Monday in an upgrade of its January forecast. CTA announced at CES it expected 2019 industry sales to top $398 million. The new forecast downgrades TV industry sales, and smart-speaker adoption is expected to slow. “Growing popularity” of streaming services, plus artificial intelligence-enabled “emerging devices” and connected car technology will be 2019's leading growth drivers, said CTA. “Enthusiasm for AI-powered technologies is skyrocketing,” said President Gary Shapiro. The cloud of “unnecessary tariffs ... threatens to slow down our nation's economic momentum," said Shapiro. CTA expects 2019 sales of Wi-Fi cameras, smart thermostats, smart smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, smart locks and doorbells and smart switches, dimmers and outlets to reach 28.6 million units, up 19 percent, and $4.5 billion, up 16 percent.
U.S. consumer tech retail revenue is expected to reach $401 billion this year, said CTA Monday in an upgrade of its January forecast. CTA announced at CES it expected 2019 industry sales to top $398 million. The new forecast downgrades TV industry sales, and smart-speaker adoption is expected to slow. “Growing popularity” of streaming services, plus artificial intelligence-enabled “emerging devices” and connected car technology will be 2019's leading growth drivers, said CTA. “Enthusiasm for AI-powered technologies is skyrocketing,” said President Gary Shapiro. The cloud of “unnecessary tariffs ... threatens to slow down our nation's economic momentum," said Shapiro. CTA expects 2019 sales of Wi-Fi cameras, smart thermostats, smart smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, smart locks and doorbells and smart switches, dimmers and outlets to reach 28.6 million units, up 19 percent, and $4.5 billion, up 16 percent.
U.S. consumer tech retail revenue is expected to reach $401 billion this year, said CTA Monday in an upgrade of its January forecast. CTA announced at CES it expected 2019 industry sales to top $398 million. The new forecast includes downgrades in CTA's outlook for TV industry sales, and said smart-speaker adoption is expected to slow this year.
The House voted 220-197 Friday to pass its version of the FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (HR-2500), which includes three amendments addressing concerns about Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers Huawei and ZTE (see 1907110037). One, led by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., would impose conditions for the Department of Commerce to lift Bureau of Industry and Security addition of Huawei to its entity list (see 1906190054). A second Gallagher-led proposal would direct the president to submit a report to Congress on ZTE's compliance with a 2018 agreement that lifted Commerce's ban on U.S. companies selling telecom software and equipment to ZTE (see 1807130048). “There are many shortcomings in this year's NDAA, but one positive” is inclusion of the anti-Huawei/ZTE amendments, he tweeted Thursday. Commerce officials said at a BIS conference the department plans to issue multiple guidance documents on its blacklisting of Huawei due to the large number of questions from U.S. exporters. Language from Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., would restrict use of telecom equipment made by companies originating in countries that are U.S. adversaries at DOD installations in U.S. territories in the Pacific Ocean. The Senate passed its 2020 NDAA version (S-1790) in June without language from proposed anti-Huawei amendments (see 1906270051). HR-2500 also includes an amendment led by Rep. Norma Torres, D-Calif., that would attach language from the 911 Supporting Accurate Views of Emergency Services (Saves) Act (HR-1629/S-1015). It would change the federal government's classification of public safety call-takers and dispatchers to “protective service occupations" (see 1904050054).
The House voted 220-197 Friday to pass its version of the FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (HR-2500), which includes three amendments addressing concerns about Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers Huawei and ZTE (see 1907110037). One, led by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., would impose conditions for the Department of Commerce to lift Bureau of Industry and Security addition of Huawei to its entity list (see 1906190054). A second Gallagher-led proposal would direct the president to submit a report to Congress on ZTE's compliance with a 2018 agreement that lifted Commerce's ban on U.S. companies selling telecom software and equipment to ZTE (see 1807130048). “There are many shortcomings in this year's NDAA, but one positive” is inclusion of the anti-Huawei/ZTE amendments, he tweeted Thursday. Commerce officials said at a BIS conference the department plans to issue multiple guidance documents on its blacklisting of Huawei due to the large number of questions from U.S. exporters. Language from Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., would restrict use of telecom equipment made by companies originating in countries that are U.S. adversaries at DOD installations in U.S. territories in the Pacific Ocean. The Senate passed its 2020 NDAA version (S-1790) in June without language from proposed anti-Huawei amendments (see 1906270051). HR-2500 also includes an amendment led by Rep. Norma Torres, D-Calif., that would attach language from the 911 Supporting Accurate Views of Emergency Services (Saves) Act (HR-1629/S-1015). It would change the federal government's classification of public safety call-takers and dispatchers to “protective service occupations" (see 1904050054).
The House voted 220-197 Friday to pass its version of the FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (HR-2500), which includes three amendments addressing concerns about Chinese telecom equipment manufacturers Huawei and ZTE (see 1907110037). One, led by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., would impose conditions for the Department of Commerce to lift Bureau of Industry and Security addition of Huawei to its entity list (see 1906190054). A second Gallagher-led proposal would direct the president to submit a report to Congress on ZTE's compliance with a 2018 agreement that lifted Commerce's ban on U.S. companies selling telecom software and equipment to ZTE (see 1807130048). “There are many shortcomings in this year's NDAA, but one positive” is inclusion of the anti-Huawei/ZTE amendments, he tweeted Thursday. Commerce officials said at a BIS conference the department plans to issue multiple guidance documents on its blacklisting of Huawei due to the large number of questions from U.S. exporters. Language from Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., would restrict use of telecom equipment made by companies originating in countries that are U.S. adversaries at DOD installations in U.S. territories in the Pacific Ocean. The Senate passed its 2020 NDAA version (S-1790) in June without language from proposed anti-Huawei amendments (see 1906270051). HR-2500 also includes an amendment led by Rep. Norma Torres, D-Calif., that would attach language from the 911 Supporting Accurate Views of Emergency Services (Saves) Act (HR-1629/S-1015). It would change the federal government's classification of public safety call-takers and dispatchers to “protective service occupations" (see 1904050054).