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05/10/2013
TIA Backs Voluntary, Not Mandatory, STB Energy Standards
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) filed comments with the California Energy Commission in response to the agency’s proposal to mandate energy-conservation standards for set-top boxes and network equipment. "Mandating conservation standards at a main communications gateway to the home, where significant changes in functionality are most efficient and likely to occur, will negatively impact innovation […]
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05/09/2013
NPRM Proposes More In-Flight Broadband Capacity
At its May open meeting earlier today, the FCC took the first steps to establish an air-to-ground mobile broadband service – aimed at increasing Wi-Fi access and competition on commercial flights – that uses shared spectrum. The NPRM proposes to create the service as a secondary allocation in the 14 GHz-14.5 GHz band, the same band […]
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05/06/2013
FCC Goes Airborne At Next Open Meeting
The next open meeting at FCC HQ, set for May 9, will address a different sort of cloud service. The first item under consideration by the panel is a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking to give fliers more broadband access in the air by establishing an Air-Ground Mobile Broadband secondary service in the 14 […]
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05/02/2013
One-Liners: FCC Nominee Wheeler Feels The Love
At our deadline yesterday, it still wasn’t completely official, but CTDaily now can report that Tom Wheeler will be facing a Senate vetting panel soon, and most industry reaction has been favorable. According to President Obama, who nominated him to be the next chairman of the FCC late yesterday afternoon, Wheeler “has been at the […]
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04/30/2013
Enhanced Wiretap Proposal Targets ISPs
Lobbying group The Internet Association opposes a stealth draft wiretap proposal that would open the door for police to intercept online communications. The group, whose clients include Google, Facebook and Yahoo!, says the U.S. Department of Justice hasn’t made a strong-enough case to ramp wiretap powers that extend to the Internet. Should this Internet proposal […]
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04/30/2013
Enhanced Wiretap Proposal Targets ISPs
Lobbying group The Internet Association opposes a stealth draft wiretap proposal that would open the door for police to intercept online communications. The group, whose clients include Google, Facebook and Yahoo!, says the U.S. Department of Justice hasn’t made a strong-enough case to ramp wiretap powers that extend to the Internet. Should this Internet proposal […]