LAS VEGAS -- The tide is turning in favor of companies offering disrupter technologies such as Uber and Lyft, based in large part on public pressure, they said during a panel Tuesday at CES. “It’s a fresh space,” said David Mack, director-community relations at Lyft, which offers Internet-based taxi and car service dispatch. “You have companies that don’t have a lot of experience dealing with these sets of regulations.”
LAS VEGAS -- The tide is turning in favor of companies offering disrupter technologies such as Uber and Lyft, based in large part on public pressure, they said during a panel Tuesday at CES. “It’s a fresh space,” said David Mack, director-community relations at Lyft, which offers Internet-based taxi and car service dispatch. “You have companies that don’t have a lot of experience dealing with these sets of regulations.”
LAS VEGAS -- The tide is turning in favor of companies offering disrupter technologies such as Uber and Lyft, based in large part on public pressure, they said during a panel Tuesday at CES. “It’s a fresh space,” said David Mack, director-community relations at Lyft, which offers Internet-based taxi and car service dispatch. “You have companies that don’t have a lot of experience dealing with these sets of regulations.”
The FCC should act “in short order” to pause, effective June 30, 2014, reductions in intercarrier compensation rates for originating intrastate VoIP traffic, said the National Exchange Carrier Association, NTCA and WTA in a Dec. 16 letter to the commission, posted in docket 10-90 Wednesday. The groups filed an emergency petition July 7, seeking relief from the reductions, and argued they had been approved under the assumption that Connect America Fund reforms would be in place to offset the loss for smaller carriers (see 1409030031). If granted, the pause should remain in place until the USF reforms are enacted, the letter said.
The FCC should act “in short order” to pause, effective June 30, 2014, reductions in intercarrier compensation rates for originating intrastate VoIP traffic, said National Exchange Carrier Association, NTCA and WTA in a Dec. 16 letter to the commission, posted in docket 10-90 Wednesday. The groups filed an emergency petition on July 7, seeking relief from the reductions, and argued they had been approved under the assumption that Connect America Fund reforms would be in place to offset the loss for smaller carriers (see 1409030031). If granted, the pause should remain in place until the USF reforms are enacted, the letter said.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and his staff have largely maintained radio silence in recent weeks on what’s next on net neutrality and such key questions as when the agency will take up an order or whether the commission will first seek specific comment on reclassifying broadband as a Title II Communications Act service with broad forbearance. Wheeler also has provided little guidance to the other commissioner offices, agency officials said.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and his staff have largely maintained radio silence in recent weeks on what’s next on net neutrality and such key questions as when the agency will take up an order or whether the commission will first seek specific comment on reclassifying broadband as a Title II Communications Act service with broad forbearance. Wheeler also has provided little guidance to the other commissioner offices, agency officials said.
President Barack Obama’s statement in favor of broadband reclassification potentially weakened “perhaps significantly, the case for granting deference” to the FCC's ultimate decision on net neutrality, said Free State Foundation President Randolph May Thursday in a blog post on The Hill website. “The president's intervention politicized the agency's decision-making process in a way that may give a reviewing court considerable pause before granting any deference.”
President Barack Obama’s statement in favor of broadband reclassification potentially weakened “perhaps significantly, the case for granting deference” to the FCC's ultimate decision on net neutrality, said Free State Foundation President Randolph May Thursday in a blog post on The Hill website. “The president's intervention politicized the agency's decision-making process in a way that may give a reviewing court considerable pause before granting any deference.”
With a key public notice up for a vote at the FCC Thursday, Verizon has been absent at the commission on any aspect of the long-awaited TV incentive auction. Industry officials say Verizon’s lack of recent advocacy at the very least creates a question mark for the auction of highly desired low-band spectrum. While Verizon had been active at the commission the first half of the year, its last ex parte filing in docket 12-268, a key auction docket, was made June 13, records show.