Sinclair CEO David Smith, perhaps the broadcast industry’s strongest individual booster of seeing ATSC 3.0 commercialized sooner rather than later, wouldn't support an ATSC 3.0 tuner mandate to drive the transition to the next-generation DTV standard, he said on a CEO panel at the NAB Show New York about ATSC 3.0's potential return on investment.
Sinclair CEO David Smith, perhaps the broadcast industry’s strongest individual booster of seeing ATSC 3.0 commercialized sooner rather than later, wouldn't support an ATSC 3.0 tuner mandate to drive the transition to the next-generation DTV standard, he said on a CEO panel at the NAB Show New York about ATSC 3.0's potential return on investment.
Sinclair CEO David Smith, perhaps the broadcast industry’s strongest individual booster of seeing ATSC 3.0 commercialized sooner rather than later, wouldn't support an ATSC 3.0 tuner mandate to drive the transition to the next-generation DTV standard, he said on a CEO panel at the NAB Show New York about ATSC 3.0's potential return on investment.
Facebook, which is fighting a class-action lawsuit that claims it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited text messages to cellphone users, last week restated its argument that the 1991 statute violates the social networking company's First Amendment right to send status update messages. Its claim TCPA is unconstitutional was in response to a U.S. government filing last month in the case asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to reject that argument. Several experts we interviewed agreed Facebook may have an uphill fight.
Facebook, which is fighting a class-action lawsuit that claims it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited text messages to cellphone users, last week restated its argument that the 1991 statute violates the social networking company's First Amendment right to send status update messages. Its claim TCPA is unconstitutional was in response to a U.S. government filing last month in the case asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to reject that argument. Several experts we interviewed agreed Facebook may have an uphill fight.
The North Carolina law banning municipal broadband expansion is taking more fire as the gubernatorial election nears and state lawmakers prepare legislation for the 2017 session. In a speech Friday in Wilson, North Carolina, Brookings Institution Fellow and ex-senior FCC official Blair Levin condemned the 2011 state law as bad broadband policy, exemplified by the town of Pinetops losing fiber broadband service provided by Wilson Greenlight. But the author of a conservative study discouraging muni networks said Wilson expanding service to Pinetops was a “very dumb decision” that shouldn't force a change in the state law.
The North Carolina law banning municipal broadband expansion is taking more fire as the gubernatorial election nears and state lawmakers prepare legislation for the 2017 session. In a speech Friday in Wilson, North Carolina, Brookings Institution Fellow and ex-senior FCC official Blair Levin condemned the 2011 state law as bad broadband policy, exemplified by the town of Pinetops losing fiber broadband service provided by Wilson Greenlight. But the author of a conservative study discouraging muni networks said Wilson expanding service to Pinetops was a “very dumb decision” that shouldn't force a change in the state law.
ATIS is working on solutions key to completing the recommendations of the FCC's Robocall Strike Force, it said in a news release Thursday. The strike force made initial recommendations to the agency last week (see 1610260053). "The wide range of mitigation techniques ATIS has contributed and is currently developing are invaluable to the industry as it takes decisive and coordinated action to abate robocall proliferation," said ATIS President Susan Miller. "Our efforts address the problem from all critical angles. They center around authenticating and verifying calling party information to provide a necessary foundation for a wide range of innovative and flexible call screening/blocking applications. In addition to helping consumers, this work is essential to maintaining consumer confidence in communications networks and services." ATIS also said it released a new standard “Location Accuracy Improvements for Emergency Calls” (ATIS-0700028 v1.1), which defines the architecture and requirements for a 911 National Emergency Address Database (NEAD). “NEAD will store information related to the location of Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth beacons in an effort to provide dispatchable location information to public safety officials,” ATIS said.
The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition launched an effort to press the FCC to "make emergency improvements" to a business data service draft order, to ensure anchor institutions have access to affordable broadband offerings. “Providing fast, affordable internet is the best way to improve education and lift community anchor institutions into the future,” said SHLB Executive Director John Windhausen in a release Thursday announcing the #NOBufferBrains campaign, which includes a video. “Schools use Ethernet, Hospitals use Ethernet, and Libraries desperately need Ethernet. The National Broadband Plan set the goal of gigabit speeds for all anchor institutions by 2020, and the FCC must not miss this opportunity to advance that goal.” The group wants the FCC to regulate both legacy TDM and newer Ethernet services with data speeds at or below 50 Mbps "in an equivalent manner to help smaller and rural anchor institutions obtain more affordable broadband connections."
ATIS is working on solutions key to completing the recommendations of the FCC's Robocall Strike Force, it said in a news release Thursday. The strike force made initial recommendations to the agency last week (see 1610260053). "The wide range of mitigation techniques ATIS has contributed and is currently developing are invaluable to the industry as it takes decisive and coordinated action to abate robocall proliferation," said ATIS President Susan Miller. "Our efforts address the problem from all critical angles. They center around authenticating and verifying calling party information to provide a necessary foundation for a wide range of innovative and flexible call screening/blocking applications. In addition to helping consumers, this work is essential to maintaining consumer confidence in communications networks and services." ATIS also said it released a new standard “Location Accuracy Improvements for Emergency Calls” (ATIS-0700028 v1.1), which defines the architecture and requirements for a 911 National Emergency Address Database (NEAD). “NEAD will store information related to the location of Wi-Fi access points and Bluetooth beacons in an effort to provide dispatchable location information to public safety officials,” ATIS said.