To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog:
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its agenda for its August 5 Commission meeting, which includes a draft Public Notice announcing expanded Innovation Zones, including a Zone at North Carolina State University in Raleigh called the Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (AERPAW).
AERPAW will study new use cases for advanced wireless technologies for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The draft public notice states that “AERPAW will focus on how cellular networks and advanced wireless technologies can enable beyond visual line-of-sight unmanned aerial systems to accelerate development, verification, and testing of transformative advances and breakthroughs in telecommunications, transportation, infrastructure monitoring, agriculture, and public safety.”“Notably,” the draft public notice continues, “the AERPAW testbed will be the first platform to allow testing at scale o
The Telecoms Industry Spends $US230K a Day To Make Sure Your Broadband Sucks
Share
Photo: Justin Sullivan / Staff, Getty Images
If broadband in the United States sucks, you can thank the telecoms industry, which is apparently so obsessed with maintaining our current crappy internet infrastructure that it spent a combined total of $US234 ($319) million lobbying against faster, cheaper competitors during the 116th Congress.
According to a new study conducted jointly by Common Cause and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union, telecoms giants spend nearly $US230,000 ($313,766) a day on average in the course of their work to thwart any legislation that would disrupt their ironclad grip on the broadband marketplace. Comcast reportedly the worst offender spent more than $US43 ($59) million in the last congressional session alone, with AT&T trailing at $US36 ($49) million spent.
Below is Alston & Bird’s
Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health policy news.
Week in Review Highlight of the Week:
This week, CMS published its annual Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. Read more about the regulation and other news below.
I. Regulations, Notices & Guidance
On July 13, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a final rule entitled,
Promoting Telehealth for Low-Income Consumers. This rule offers further guidance on the administration of the Connected Care Pilot Program, including guidance on eligible services, competitive bidding, invoicing, and data reporting for selected participants, allowing selected Pilot Program participants to begin their Pilot projects.
Lake City police investigating scam using spoof phone number
The scammer contacted the victim using the app Text Now, where the user can create a fake phone number, police say.
Credit: iStock Photos, Scam Alert Author: First Coast News Staff Published: 4:49 PM EDT July 19, 2021 Updated: 4:49 PM EDT July 19, 2021
LAKE CITY, Fla. The Lake City Police Department is searching for potential victims of a scammer who used a spoof phone number to extort a resident.
The scammer contacted the victim using the app Text Now, where the user can create a fake phone number, according to the Lake City Police Department. Using the number, the scammer had the victim call 386-754-4344, one digit off from the LCPD s non-emergency number. The person on the other end pretended to be a police officer.
In Alabama, many still lack broadband access
Ledyard King and Mike Stucka
USA TODAY NETWORK
As federal officials debate pouring billions of dollars into broadband access, data suggests many of Alabama s schoolchildren and adults who preferred to work from home spent the pandemic with sub-par access to high-speed internet, particularly in the state s least-wealthy counties.
Advocates say that digital divide across the United States is due largely to two factors: a lack of internet infrastructure in the country s rural reaches and the relatively high cost of broadband that has made the service unaffordable for many in urban centers.
In about half of Alabama s counties 34 of 66 measured by a Federal Communications Commission study, broadband access is available to at least 76% of residents. Yet in about half of the state measured by Microsoft 34 of 67 counties no more than 18% of households actually have high-speed access, a USA TODAY analysis shows.