Markets in the world. We are talking about a company that is only four years old that already sells more smart phones in china than apple. We will be taking an indepth look at their charismatic leader and its ambitious global land. I want to bring in my editoratlarge, cory johnson. His article is the centerpiece of this weeks global tech issue of humbert bloomberg businessweek. Spent 10 days there. That is a long time. This is a company that is called the apple of china. Is it really . I think, in a lot of ways, it is. Xiaomi, in four years, has built a brand that consumers love. It has grown very fast and sold 18 million smart phones. Lot of customers disappointed. The phones are hard to get. They grew the supply chain so they could fill the demand. Customers are hanging out outside you have people on trains for 15 hours to go to this event. Thats right. They are drawn to the star power of the executives. Has a long career in chinese technology. He was the ceo of a Software Maker and
Transmitter will be approved. The other side is that we allocate the effort. Spectrum is where mobile devices run. More collective sense, we have to collaborate and coordinate with other federal agencies but also with the private sector in helping innovators get to market. , we think about it on the cell phone or other technologies. How does it relate to health care . There is something called the fcc provided mband. Ed spectrum for allows monitoring without injuries of monitors. Allocated spectrum. Another way that we support innovation is with medical micropower networks. They need to have a spot on the spectrum or else there may be interference. Sectionere a special spectrum just for medical devices . Everything has its but. Its spot. Bluetooth and other things. You can understand how and health care this could be involved. Ising allocated back to him more and more important. Spectrum is more and more important. Showedas a study that that there are nearly 20,000 healthrelated apps o
Work and need to work all the time, and the way we work, role work occupies in our life for most men and women is complicated right now in our culture. The Nightingale School about 15 years ago, an allgirl school, had a career day. They invited a corporate lawyer partner, the mother of a child in the school, to come and speak, and she came, and she spoke, and she talked about all the wonderful things she did as partner, and then there was a question period. These were girls between 14 and 18. First question was, what time do you get home for dinner . Second question was, what happens if your child is sick . The third question was, how often do you spend the whole weekend with your child . Not one of these girls asked this woman a thing about the law or law firm or her political beliefs or corporate belief, so that the pressure on women who are corporate lawyers is enormous because underneath them, the generation that theyre raising are complaining, and with justification, perhaps, and
Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy which by some measures accounts for as much as onesixth of the economy itself. I think there are a few things we have going on of particular interest though. One of those is wireless communications. And you can look around at the proliferation of phones, and thats probably no surprise be that its an area of real interest. But with you also have to consider some of the numbers. We now have more Wireless Phones in this country than we have people. One in three American Adults now has a tablet com
Cspan, created by americas cae companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host this week the communicators is on site at the federal Communications Commission here many washington d. C. Its their site of their firstever mhealth innovation expo. Its a discussion about the future of health and technology. In this program youre going to hear from regulators and innovators. Joining us on the communicators at the site of the fccss mhealth innovation expo is matt quinn, director of Health Care Initiatives for the fcc. Welcome. Guest thank you. Host why is the fcc involved in these matters . Guest were involved in lots of ways in health care and in mobile health. One of the ways that were involved is that we had an mhealth Task Force Last year say here are some ways that fcc can provide leadership in this area. We have a equipment certification program. So, basically, any piece of equipment that uses spectrum as a transmitter we approve as an agency. Th