Most people are using AI over mobile platforms, which will mean even more data on carrier networks, CTIA President Ajit Pai said at a Politico event Tuesday (see 2509160040). As an example, he talked about a recent vacation with his family to Japan, where he made extensive use of an AI-based travel app. Pai tied AI to CTIA’s push to make more full-power licensed spectrum available for carriers and streamline wireless siting rules. “We’re starting to see more and more companies start to use AI and 5G to make their operations more efficient,” he added. “We’re just scratching the surface.”
The FCC sought comment Tuesday on a July petition by the Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) urging the FCC to launch a rulemaking on guidelines for getting consent from licensees to install signal boosters (see 2507210025). Comments are due Oct. 16, replies Oct. 31, said a Public Safety Bureau notice in docket RM-12009.
VoIP-Pal "does not understand the claims it has tried to plead," wireless companies said in a reply filed Friday with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case 1:24-cv-03051). The company is suing AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile for using their market dominance to withhold unbundled voice-over-Wi-Fi calling and texting from consumers (see 2410300004).
NextNav countered the arguments that RFID company Avery Dennison made in its challenge to NextNav’s proposal to offer a terrestrial complement to GPS using 900 MHz spectrum (see 2507280039). Avery Dennison said in a filing last month that NextNav’s proposal “presents a significant threat to the continued effective operation of the RFID ecosystem, which plays a vital role across multiple industries, including logistics, retail, airline, consumer goods, and healthcare.”
Federated Wireless Chief Technology Officer Kurt Schaubach touted the importance of the citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) band in a meeting with FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty, according to a filing Monday in docket 17-258. Federated officials called for “critical” changes to rules for the band to further spur deployment.
Many companies and local governments are turning to private 5G networks as a way to address connectivity issues, ResearchAndMarkets.com said in a report Friday. The report cited numerous examples of how the networks are being used. It also noted that while most of the networks rely on gear from traditional wireless infrastructure companies, including Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei and ZTE, “alternative suppliers are continuing to gain traction.”
Regulators "may need to define cautious regulatory frameworks" for direct-to-device (D2D) service using terrestrial mobile spectrum to protect incumbent services there, GSMA said in a paper Friday. It said one option for regulators is for D2D operations to protect existing services in accordance with ITU's radio regulations, with D2D operating on a no-interference/no-protection basis. Another option is creating secondary allocations in certain mobile bands, along with some conditions to ensure that D2D operations don't cause harmful interference to terrestrial mobile.
Representatives of the Ecommerce Innovation Alliance met with an aide to Chairman Brendan Carr on the group’s pursuit of a declaratory ruling finding that people who provide prior express written consent to receive text messages can't claim damages under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act for those received outside the hours of 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. (see 2503030036).
The Organized Village of Kasaan, a tribe in Alaska, urged the FCC to preserve regulations in the National Environmental Policy Act and National Historic Preservation Act that are important to protecting tribal interests. The FCC is looking at changing how it enforces both laws (see 2508180012). Kassan village is “home to the only remaining Haida longhouse in the United States, and our lands contain burial sites, carving sheds, and traditional food harvesting areas,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 25-217. Previous infrastructure projects “have disrupted salmon spawning grounds and crab habitats, which are central to our food security and cultural practices.”
Nokia filed at the FCC data related to its initial commercial deployment as a spectrum access system administrator for the citizens broadband radio service band (see 2407180035). All the data was redacted from the filing made Wednesday in docket 15-319.