Verizon's success in maintaining its public safety base as it rolls out its own first responder-dedicated network in competition with AT&T/FirstNet is hard to predict, analysts and industry lawyers said, but some local government officials see it as a game changer, injecting competition. Verizon historically has had more public safety customers than any U.S. carrier, but stood aside as AT&T and partners negotiated and signed a long-term contract with FirstNet in March (see 1703300050). This week, Verizon unveiled its strategy (see 1708160046).
Next-Generation 911 needs funding and a standard definition that accounts for how broadband will transform first-responder and 911-center operations, APCO said in a Monday report. Recommendations include launching a federal grant program to fund upgrades to broadband technology and ending some states’ practice of diverting 911 fees to unrelated purposes. NG-911 should be defined as “a secure, nationwide, interoperable, standards-based, all-IP emergency communications infrastructure enabling end-to-end transmission of all types of data, including voice and multimedia communications from the public to an Emergency Communications Center,” APCO said. Future integration between NG-911 and FirstNet’s national public safety network will enable seamless broadband communications between first responders and public safety answering points, while smartphones and other IP-enabled devices will allow the public to send multimedia directly to PSAPs, the report said. “PSAPs of the future will be a nerve center, managing data-rich communications via broadband technology with 9-1-1 callers and first responders.”
Next-Generation 911 needs funding and a standard definition that accounts for how broadband will transform first-responder and 911-center operations, APCO said in a Monday report. Recommendations include launching a federal grant program to fund upgrades to broadband technology and ending some states’ practice of diverting 911 fees to unrelated purposes. NG-911 should be defined as “a secure, nationwide, interoperable, standards-based, all-IP emergency communications infrastructure enabling end-to-end transmission of all types of data, including voice and multimedia communications from the public to an Emergency Communications Center,” APCO said. Future integration between NG-911 and FirstNet’s national public safety network will enable seamless broadband communications between first responders and public safety answering points, while smartphones and other IP-enabled devices will allow the public to send multimedia directly to PSAPs, the report said. “PSAPs of the future will be a nerve center, managing data-rich communications via broadband technology with 9-1-1 callers and first responders.”
Verizon received nearly 139,000 subpoenas, orders, warrants and emergency requests, from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies for the first half of 2017, almost 3,000 more requests than the same period last year, said the telco's transparency report Monday. The company received 9,500 fewer demands in the last half of 2016, it said. Of the 2017 demands, more than 68,000 were subpoenas, more than 32,300 were orders and more than 28,300 general orders, more than 10,700 were warrants and nearly 27,500 emergency requests from law enforcement. The company said it rejected about 3 percent of all demands it received because they were legally invalid and may need a "different type of legal process" for the requested information. The report doesn't include statistics for AOL acquired in 2015, nor Yahoo, bought in June. Those companies, now called Oath, will issue a separate report, the telco said. The company said it also received between 0-499 national security letter demands for the first half of this year. General Counsel Craig Silliman blogged that the company will file a joint amicus brief with other tech companies in a Supreme Court case that will determine whether customers have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cellsite data conveyed to their providers. The high court said in June it will hear Carpenter v. U.S. (see 1706050006). Silliman urges Congress to pass updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (see 1707270043) and approve the International Communications Privacy Act (see 1708010053).
Verizon received nearly 139,000 subpoenas, orders, warrants and emergency requests, from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies for the first half of 2017, almost 3,000 more requests than the same period last year, said the telco's transparency report Monday. The company received 9,500 fewer demands in the last half of 2016, it said. Of the 2017 demands, more than 68,000 were subpoenas, more than 32,300 were orders and more than 28,300 general orders, more than 10,700 were warrants and nearly 27,500 emergency requests from law enforcement. The company said it rejected about 3 percent of all demands it received because they were legally invalid and may need a "different type of legal process" for the requested information. The report doesn't include statistics for AOL acquired in 2015, nor Yahoo, bought in June. Those companies, now called Oath, will issue a separate report, the telco said. The company said it also received between 0-499 national security letter demands for the first half of this year. General Counsel Craig Silliman blogged that the company will file a joint amicus brief with other tech companies in a Supreme Court case that will determine whether customers have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cellsite data conveyed to their providers. The high court said in June it will hear Carpenter v. U.S. (see 1706050006). Silliman urges Congress to pass updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (see 1707270043) and approve the International Communications Privacy Act (see 1708010053).
Verizon received nearly 139,000 subpoenas, orders, warrants and emergency requests, from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies for the first half of 2017, almost 3,000 more requests than the same period last year, said the telco's transparency report Monday. The company received 9,500 fewer demands in the last half of 2016, it said. Of the 2017 demands, more than 68,000 were subpoenas, more than 32,300 were orders and more than 28,300 general orders, more than 10,700 were warrants and nearly 27,500 emergency requests from law enforcement. The company said it rejected about 3 percent of all demands it received because they were legally invalid and may need a "different type of legal process" for the requested information. The report doesn't include statistics for AOL acquired in 2015, nor Yahoo, bought in June. Those companies, now called Oath, will issue a separate report, the telco said. The company said it also received between 0-499 national security letter demands for the first half of this year. General Counsel Craig Silliman blogged that the company will file a joint amicus brief with other tech companies in a Supreme Court case that will determine whether customers have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cellsite data conveyed to their providers. The high court said in June it will hear Carpenter v. U.S. (see 1706050006). Silliman urges Congress to pass updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (see 1707270043) and approve the International Communications Privacy Act (see 1708010053).
Next-Generation 911 needs funding and a standard definition that accounts for how broadband will transform first-responder and 911-center operations, APCO said in a Monday report. Recommendations include launching a federal grant program to fund upgrades to broadband technology and ending some states’ practice of diverting 911 fees to unrelated purposes. NG-911 should be defined as “a secure, nationwide, interoperable, standards-based, all-IP emergency communications infrastructure enabling end-to-end transmission of all types of data, including voice and multimedia communications from the public to an Emergency Communications Center,” APCO said. Future integration between NG-911 and FirstNet’s national public safety network will enable seamless broadband communications between first responders and public safety answering points, while smartphones and other IP-enabled devices will allow the public to send multimedia directly to PSAPs, the report said. “PSAPs of the future will be a nerve center, managing data-rich communications via broadband technology with 9-1-1 callers and first responders.”
President Donald Trump on Aug. 15 extended the Commerce Department’s authority to control U.S. exports under the Export Administration Regulations through Aug. 17, 2018, the White House announced. The move extends a national emergency associated with the expiration of the Export Administration Act, which initially lapsed in 1994 and has since been renewed annually through executive action. Former President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13222 to declare the national emergency, and the Aug. 15 Trump executive action affirms that the emergency still exists.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is issuing a final rule to align the Commerce Control List (CCL) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR) with changes made to the Wassenaar Arrangement’s List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies during the December 2016 Wassenaar Plenary Meeting, BIS said. Eight export control classification numbers (ECCNs) in CCL Category 3 (electronics) were revised, more than in any other category. There will be revisions to 50 ECCNs in total, BIS said. Among the changes is the addition of "Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits" (MMICs) to the list of integrated circuits in the note to ECCN 3A001.a, covering general-purpose integrated circuits.
Nvidia’s autonomous-driving “road map” will include “development partnerships” it forges this year and next with a “growing number of car companies” on nonrecurring engineering and artificial intelligence projects, said CEO Jen-Hsun Huang on a Thursday earnings call. Beginning in 2018, he said he expects to see “robot taxis start to come to the road.” Nvidia is working with a “handful” of really exciting robot taxi projects around the world, many that will begin beta-testing, “and then next year you'll see a lot more of them,” he said. Starting in 2019, “you'll see them go into real commercial services” as what the industry calls “Level 5s, basically, driverless cars” with full autonomy, he said. Huang expects fully autonomous “branded cars will start hitting the road around 2020 and 2021,” he said. Huang thinks cryptocurrency “is here to stay,” he said on the call. “The market need for it is going to grow, and over time it will become quite large,” said Huang. As new cryptocurrency “algorithms” are being developed, the graphics processing unit (GPU), such as the Tegra devices that Nvidia makes and markets, “is really quite ideal for it,” he said. “And so this is a market that is not likely to go away anytime soon, and the only thing that we can probably expect is that there will be more currencies to come. It will come in a whole lot of different nations. It will emerge from time to time, and the GPU is really quite great for it.” Nvidia’s cryptocurrency strategy “is to stay very, very close to the market,” said Huang. “We understand its dynamics really well.” Huang thinks “the larger of a GPU company you are,” the greater its ability to “absorb the volatility” of the business, he said. “Because we have such large volumes, we have the ability to rock and roll with this market as it goes.”