The Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security finalized some interagency reviews of Huawei license applications and will begin issuing approvals and denials on a “rolling basis,” said Matt Borman, Commerce deputy assistant secretary-export administration. Secretary Wilbur Ross said the department will "send out the 20-day intent-to-deny letters and some approvals” for U.S. companies to export some things to the Chinese telecom gearmaker. Ross said Commerce got about 290 “requests for specific licenses.” BIS plans to approve at least “several” licenses while denying others, a Commerce spokesperson told us after Borman spoke at the agency's Materials and Equipment Technical Advisory Committee meeting Wednesday. The Semiconductor Industry Association welcomes approvals for licenses that aren't national security threats. “Sales of these non-sensitive commercial products help ensure the competitiveness of the U.S. semiconductor industry, which is essential to national security,” said SIA President John Neuffer.
The Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security finalized some interagency reviews of Huawei license applications and will begin issuing approvals and denials on a “rolling basis,” said Matt Borman, Commerce deputy assistant secretary-export administration. Secretary Wilbur Ross said the department will "send out the 20-day intent-to-deny letters and some approvals” for U.S. companies to export some things to the Chinese telecom gearmaker. Ross said Commerce got about 290 “requests for specific licenses.” BIS plans to approve at least “several” licenses while denying others, a Commerce spokesperson told us after Borman spoke at the agency's Materials and Equipment Technical Advisory Committee meeting Wednesday. The Semiconductor Industry Association welcomes approvals for licenses that aren't national security threats. “Sales of these non-sensitive commercial products help ensure the competitiveness of the U.S. semiconductor industry, which is essential to national security,” said SIA President John Neuffer.
The Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security finalized some interagency reviews of Huawei license applications and will begin issuing approvals and denials on a “rolling basis,” according to Matt Borman, Commerce deputy assistant secretary for export administration. The announcement was first made by Secretary Wilbur Ross, who told Fox Business on Nov. 19 that Commerce has started “to send out the 20-day intent-to-deny letters and some approvals.” Ross also said Commerce has received about 290 “requests for specific licenses.”
OneWeb Satellites -- the OneWeb/Airbus satellite manufacturing joint venture (see 1706270064) -- joined the Satellite Industry Association, SIA said Tuesday.
Satellite Industry Association space safety principles issued Tuesday to promote space sustainability include supporting a ratings system on space safety practices of satellite stakeholders globally, designing and launching commercial satellites that can be easily tracked, and designating contacts available anytime to handle hazards. Principles include sharing space situational awareness information such as health and status, orbital elements and maneuvers, and satellite characteristics and RF information to SSA providers and potentially affected satellite operators. Other principles are deploying demonstration satellites into fast-decaying or seldom-used altitudes, using autonomous transponder systems broadcasting a satellite's position even if the satellite has failed, and choosing non-geostationary orbit satellites and mission designs that limit impact to other operators in if a satellite becomes derelict.
Global semiconductor sales increased 1.7 percent sequentially in July from June to $33.4 billion, but declined 15.5 percent from July 2018, said the Semiconductor Industry Association Tuesday. July sales increased 3.1 percent from June in Asia Pacific, and were up 2.5 percent in the Americas, 1.1 percent in China and 0.7 percent in Japan but down 0.5 percent in Europe, said SIA. Year-over-year sales declined “across all regional markets,” with China and the Americas having the largest decreases, it said.
The Wireless ISP Association slammed NAB and Satellite Industry Association filings raising questions on whether the C band can be safely shared with fixed point-to-multipoint (P2MP) operations. Both referred to an ITU report, WISPA filed, posted Thursday in docket 18-122. “Citing the ITU report is misleading because NAB, and SIA before it, mention only the fact that interference occurred, and do not explain that the circumstances in Bangladesh and Brazil were entirely different from coordinated sharing that would take place in the United States under the proposal advanced by the Broadband Access Coalition and others in this proceeding,” WISPA said. Both “mislead the Commission by disingenuously comparing carefully coordinated P2MP operations in C-band spectrum to network deployments about which next to nothing is known, except that they were likely uncoordinated with earth stations,” WISPA said. "NAB does not have confidence that the unproven P2MP coordination proposal will fully protect earth stations, and adding the P2MP proposal to an already complex C-Band reallocation would be reckless," a NAB spokesperson emailed Thursday: "There is no indication that the operations in Bangladesh and Brazil (as well as other countries) were not authorized operations -- yet they still caused interference.” SIA didn't comment.
Amazon's Kuiper Systems subsidiary is Satellite Industry Association's latest executive member, SIA announced Monday. Kuiper has a non-geostationary orbit constellation application pending at the FCC (see 1907310005).
Different sides offered the FCC conflicting readings of initial comments on alternative plans for opening the C band for 5G. Those comments showed little move toward consensus (see 1908080041) on how the regulator should address the band, which has emerged as a top commission spectrum priority. The FCC sought input on a proposal by America’s Communications Association, the Competitive Carriers Association and Charter Communications and a study by Jeff Reed of Virginia Tech and Reed Engineering on sharing the band with fixed point-to-multipoint (P2MP) operations (see 1907020061). The regulator also asked about an AT&T letter raising technical and band plan issues. Replies posted through Thursday in docket 18-122.
Satcom ground equipment company Comtech EF Data joined the Satellite Industry Association, the association said Monday.