Host and this week on the communicators, our guest is Shirley Bloomfield of ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Shes the ceo there. Our guest reporter from Telecommunications Reports is paul kirby. Huly bloomfield Shirley Bloomfield, who do you represent . Guest about 850 communitybased broadband providers across the country, theyre in 46 states, so theyre the companies that traditionally were the local phone companies that had to evolve and evolved very quickly to become a broadband provider. So they truly are the onestop communication providers in a lot of areas around the country serving about 35 of our land mass. Host could you name a couple of those companies to help us get familiar . Guest oh, absolutely. All the way to western south dakota by mount rushmore, we could go to citizens on the Mississippi River up in wisconsin where ive got a number of cooperatives, and if were look over here in few state of virginia in my state of virginia, weve got scott county down in the very
Equipment from the chinese tech giant waves. Washington rejects beijings claims in the South China Sea china in turn accuses the u. S. Of undermining Regional Peace and stability. 14 dead an ongoing cross border fighting between us about john and armenia. Im joining with the sports including. The decision is that his grace since strong words from English Premier League manager. European ban is lifted. Now we begin with breaking news from the International Court of justice at the hague its ruled in favor of qatar in a dispute with 4 out of countries that have imposed a blockade on the gulf states and have prevented qatar the aircraft from flying over their air space the court said the u. N. Civil Aviation Agency has jurisdiction in this case because of one. You know. For all. Of. Us too. By 15 both you. Told me that the council of the International Civil levy here organization has duties you can do that they. Need to eat by the government of the day of. The 27 p. And the seat of the occ
Host our guest reporter is cat zakrzewski of the Washington Post. Mr. Spalter, if you could begin by reminding us what u. S. Telecom is and who you represent. Guest thank you very much, peter. It is great to be here paid ira present the future of connectivity. The members of the u. S. Telecom are the innovators and Technology Company that deliver the networks of the future to all americans. We have Large National providers like at t and verizon and a wonderful regional providers like consolidated frontier and windstream and Alaska Communications but we also represent a number of our smallest providers serving a Rural Communities across the country and around us as well its one of the most innovative Global Technology and prizes like cisco and ericsson and they are also a part of our effort to raise the bar when it comes to this Important Technology which is broadband. Host give us a snapshot, if you would, mr. Spalter of the last couple of months for your Member Companies. Guest i thin
Itll be lights out at vision quest. My name is marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. Were not gonna wake up every morning wondering if we have a job. Were gonna wake up every morning wondering how many jobs we have to do. Its not always pretty. Everythings gonna change. Everything. But i do it to save jobs, and i do it to make money. This. Lets go to work. Is the profit. Based in long island, new york, vision quest is a fullservice lighting manufacturer, handling everything from concept development, design, engineering, and fabrication. Larry make sure it goes in like that. Nice and professional. Lemonis for years, owner Larry Lieberman experienced serious growth, churning out custom fixtures for such bigname clients like abercrombie fitch, chanel, and universal studios. Larry take it to disney. Lemonis but a recent drop in revenue has drawn larry into a vicious circle. Jason highlow is officially dead. Larry oh, no. Lemonis anxious to control costs, he
Anyone but walk away but the message from the u. S. As it considers financial help for countries upgrading to 5 g. Technology huawei says its not controlled by beijing bureaucrats why is washington so worried by one of chinas most successful and innovative companies. Is inside still. Hello welcome to the program. The United States says its willing to finance other countries 5 g. Networks so long as wow a isnt involved President Donald Trump accuses beijing of using its influence over Chinese Companies to spy on other countries in the u. K. Huawei has been given permission to build a new Research Facility while the countrys Cyber Security agency conducts an emergency review into the use of wire weighs 5 g. Equipment the chinese firm says it will invest more than a 1000000000. 00 in its new site in the east of england while insisting the focus will be on the development and manufacture of semiconductors which according to while away a not targeted by u. S. Sanctions but washington has wa