The European Union issued the following trade-related releases July 10-11 (notices of most significance will be given separate headlines):
Content delivery network operators are turning to CDN interconnection as a way to pursue faster and simpler delivery of increasing loads of over-the-top traffic and to maximize their global footprint, the operators told us. CDN interconnection can provide a more efficient, cost-effective alternative to traditional peering and transit relationships, they said, acting as a partial solution to what some see as increasingly contentious peering relationships (CD July 1 p1).
Content delivery network operators are turning to CDN interconnection as a way to pursue faster and simpler delivery of increasing loads of over-the-top traffic and to maximize their global footprint, the operators told us. CDN interconnection can provide a more efficient, cost-effective alternative to traditional peering and transit relationships, they said, acting as a partial solution to what some see as increasingly contentious peering relationships (WID July 1 p1).
Dish Network is implementing its standard procedures for natural disasters to serve customers affected by the Colorado wildfires, it said in a news release Friday (http://bit.ly/17MLxgI). It said these customers can pause their Dish service and account, waive equipment fees for lost or damaged equipment and waive installation fees when a customer is ready to resume service.
LOS ANGELES -- Nyko Technologies took the wraps off several Shield, Xbox One and PS4 accessories at E3 this week. For the Shield, it will ship a dock at about $39.99, a $19.99 travel case and $29.99 shell case, said Marketing Director Chris Arbogast. Nyko expects to ship them for the device’s launch this month, he said.
CEA and NCTA have asked the Department of Energy to pause a rulemaking process on energy standards for set-top boxes and instead allow multichannel video program distributors to police themselves, the trade groups said at a joint media briefing Monday. Davis Wright attorney Paul Glist, representing NCTA, said he believes DOE proposals (CD April 10 p19) on whether set-top boxes should be regulated and how they should be tested could be finalized soon. If so, they would be a “switch point” for the cable industry, he said. If the DOE continues with the rulemaking, it will invalidate a voluntary agreement (VA) on set-top box standards that’s already being followed industry-wide, and discourage other industries from working proactively on energy efficiency, “undermining the very thing the DOE wants to encourage,” he said. DOE and the National Resources Defense Council, which backed tighter standards on set-top boxes, didn’t comment.
CEA and NCTA have asked the Department of Energy to pause a rulemaking process on energy standards for set-top boxes and instead allow multichannel video program distributors to police themselves, the trade groups said at a joint media briefing Monday. Davis Wright attorney Paul Glist, representing NCTA, said he believes DOE proposals (CED April 10 p4) on whether set-top boxes should be regulated and how they should be tested could be finalized soon. If so, they would be a “switch point” for the cable industry, he said. If the DOE continues with the rulemaking, it will invalidate a voluntary agreement (VA) on set-top box standards that’s already being followed industry-wide, and discourage other industries from working proactively on energy efficiency, “undermining the very thing the DOE wants to encourage,” he said. DOE and the National Resources Defense Council, which backed tighter standards on set-top boxes, didn’t comment.
The media ownership study that prompted a pause in approving FCC rules may be done soon, said the head of the group paying for the research on cross-ownership’s impact on minority ownership. The research has been completed and is being peer-reviewed, Minority Media and Telecommunications Council Executive Director David Honig told us Tuesday. “We're hoping to get it finished and published before the end of this week, but you never know,” he said. “It’s that close to done.” Then-FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in February paused a vote on ownership rules to give time for MMTC to do the study, and Friday the agency released a study design on barriers to entry, research that a public notice said relates to ownership rules (CD May 29 p2). MMTC had expected the research to be given to the agency Wednesday, said a May 2 filing in docket 09-182 (http://bit.ly/12iVzVE). It said the reviewers are professors Philip Napoli of Fordham University, Allen Hammond of the Santa Clara School of Law and Jannette Dates, ex-dean of Howard University’s School of Communications. NAB continues to think “modest reform of media ownership rules -- many of which stem from the 1970s -- are warranted,” an association spokesman told us. “As the events of Superstorm Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombing and the Oklahoma tornadoes have proven, local broadcasting still matters, and it’s time to adopt ownership rules that allow radio and TV stations to remain competitive with national pay media providers.”
The FCC, having contracted for $208,799 of preliminary research on barriers to entering businesses it oversees like owning radio and TV stations, may spend as much as $917,823 for studies acquiring new data including on new media. That’s according to documents the agency released to Washington Internet Daily’s publisher under Freedom of Information Act requests. As the commission prepares to receive a new privately funded study on media ownership for which a vote on new rules was paused in February, it’s embarking on what officials inside and outside the agency called the next phase of barriers-to-entry research.
The FCC, having contracted for $208,799 of preliminary research on barriers to entering businesses it oversees like owning radio and TV stations, may spend as much as $917,823 for studies acquiring new data including on new media. That’s according to documents the agency released to Communications Daily’s publisher under Freedom of Information Act requests. As the commission prepares to receive a new privately funded study on media ownership for which a vote on new rules was paused in February (CD Feb 27 p1), it’s embarking on what officials inside and outside the agency called the next phase of barriers-to-entry research.