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Last Friday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced plans to make mid-band spectrum available for 5G and other advanced wireless services in Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa for the first time. The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) and Office of Engineering and Technology, in collaboration with other federal administrations, reportedly took several actions to enable commercial deployments in the band segment.
The press release stated that firstly, the FCC approved new and updated Environmental Sensing Capability (ESC) sensor deployment and coverage plans of four ESC operators, opening up commercial access in Puerto Rico and Guam. Next, it reportedly approved Federated Wireless Inc.’s expansion of its Spectrum Access Systems (SAS) operations to cover a portion of the 3.5 GHz band in American Samoa.
The Baltimore State Attorney’s office is asking the Federal Communications Commission to investigate and possibly sanction or censor a news station that publicized what the Democrat office labeled as “extremely dangerous coverage” of the state attorney.
In the complaint filed last week, the Baltimore State Attorney’s communications director Zy Richardson claimed that Sinclair’s Fox-affiliated WBFF’s press time devoted to Marilyn Mosby, the top prosecutor in Baltimore, was “blatantly slanted, dishonest, misleading, racist, and extremely dangerous.”
In addition to creating what the complaint alleged was an “intentional crusade against State’s Attorney Mosby, which given today’s politically charged and divisive environment, is extremely dangerous,” Mosby’s office said that WBFF has exhibited a “dangerous pattern” of “slanted, rigged, misleading or inflammatory headlines … followed by a conspiracy theory . . . and supported with guest commentary from
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Perryn Ashmore plans to retire from his post as HHS chief information officer, a role he was named to in December, at the end of the month.
Janet Vogel, chief information security officer at the department, will take over as acting CIO after Ashmore leaves, HHS confirmed to Modern Healthcare.
Under Ashmore s tenure as CIO, HHS named its first-ever chief artificial intelligence officer.
Ashmore took the helm as the department s acting CIO last year after former HHS CIO José Arrieta resigned in August. Arrieta, who in August said he wanted to spend more time with his children, had played a pivotal role in the rollout of HHS Protect, a database through which hospitals and states report capacity data to the federal government.
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Aguiar-Curry helps push for broadband investment
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SACRAMENTO Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, and state Sen. Lena A. Gonzalez, D-Long Beach, led a group of 17 members of the California Legislature in calling upon Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leadership to support a major investment in broadband infrastructure and service for Californians without reliable, affordable internet. The effort comes as Newsom considers adjustments to his January budget proposal for the fiscal year 2021-22 in the annual “May Revision.”
The letter calls for a $500 million allocation in funds from the American Rescue Plan to support the deployment of broadband municipal fiber networks by local governments. The group calls for a significant $3 billion investment to further target and support broadband infrastructure deployment by local agencies, nonprofits and internet providers who apply under the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) program.