Nearly two years since it took effect, the FCC's streamlined licensing regime for small-scale satellite operations is getting mixed feedback from the satellite universe. Some regulatory lawyers say it's an improvement, but others see the process hurting from lack of enough staffing. The FCC didn't comment. Lynk urged the International Bureau earlier this month to approve its pending mobile service application constellation under the streamlined rules, noting it had been pending since May 2021 and it hoped for launches to commence in October (see 2206060002).
As streaming service providers start to take video piracy more seriously, they face big obstacles such as that pirates may offer services that rival the customer experience of legitimate ones, and that the financial cost of piracy remains a big question mark, experts said during a video piracy event Tuesday.
As streaming service providers start to take video piracy more seriously, they face big obstacles such as that pirates may offer services that rival the customer experience of legitimate ones, and that the financial cost of piracy remains a big question mark, experts said during a video piracy event Tuesday.
Facing a deluge of federal and state spending aimed at closing the digital divide, broadband internet access service providers and network construction contractors foresee a logjam of work orders. Some tell us they anticipate what could be significant delays in work to extend networks to unserved rural areas.
Facing a deluge of federal and state spending aimed at closing the digital divide, broadband internet access service providers and network construction contractors foresee a logjam of work orders. Some tell us they anticipate what could be significant delays in work to extend networks to unserved rural areas.
Facing the July 16 deadline for carriers and text providers to support routing 988 traffic to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, much of Lifeline's focus is making sure there's the capacity to handle that traffic, its administrator and its funder told an FCBA CLE Wednesday.
Radio interests and allies are both left and right of the dial on GeoBroadcast Solutions tests supposedly showing its ZoneCasting technology enables safe geo-targeted radio advertising (see 2204180046). The sides in docket 20-401 comments this week called the GBS studies either solid or cherry-picking scenarios to hide interference risks. Replies are due June 21.
The anemic number of Black-owned radio stations in the U.S. show a need for lawmakers to reinstate the FCC's long-defunct minority tax certificate program and for advertisers to better recognize best routes for reaching Black consumers, National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters President Jim Winston told us. NABOB put out its inaugural report on Black-owned station ownership and revenue Monday.
Preliminary federal testing of possible incompatibility issues between airborne radar altimeter receivers in the 4200-4400 MHz band and 5G transmitters operating in the 3700-3980 MHz band isn't showing interference from the C-band 5G signals, Frank Sanders, senior technical fellow at NTIA's Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, told a connected aviation conference Wednesday in Reston, Virginia. He said if further testing does find interference, a technical fix appears to be available via filtering of the altimeters and/or the 5G transmitters.
While cable's video subscriber numbers continue their downward slide, cable operators and watchers see video still having a long tail, with major providers not reaching a tipping point anytime soon.