I say that facetiously in the same direction. I have never seen closer alignment on the federal side and the non federal side with the appreciation we need to find ways to accommodate all of the innovative ideas, the growth and challenging the need for more spectrum, and they check their smart phones and get into the car, checking at home and so forth and what you saw on the screen, the Driverless Cars a little bit farther out but things where you get up in the morning and the device is checking how you are doing today, do you need to go in and get a checkup . This is enabling all sorts of new applications that will improve our lives in the economy. I want to say a few words about the tech talk, what we have been learning as we have gone through this process you heard reference a few times, just for some of you who may not be as focused on the details, why this is important, it is a piece thats adjacent to one of the major broadbands, a w. S. 1, we already have in our portfolio on the
Countries as laboratories but as collaborators too. As jenna said, this is a Global Spectrum environment, and pretty much you need to be on the same page. But at the same time, you know, let others to kind of take the lead and see if it works out and maybe follow with that. Thats a good approach too. Great. So at the technical level theres a lot of work going on internationally. Universities and so forth. So you go to a conference, as peter and i and im sure theres others here go to, called dice band which has been going on ten years . 2005, yeah. Yeah. Its a bit surprising how much work is going on on dynamic spectrum access around the world. And, you know, the normal process is you first see these things in the laboratories and in the universities, and then assuming they still have merit, they bubble their way up through the policy ranks. So ill just focus on a couple of things. Tv white space in the database model that we adopted here in the United States, its been embraced already
Conduct tests, modeling, simulation. I was talking to a company the other day about really large company, how long it took them to to get approval to buy some kind of Software Package to do some modeling. And this is the for one of the bands of the future, they had a lot of stake in. So, its not just the government. Its a lot of folks that are hurting for money, and resources. So, any way to kind of filter that back into r d and testing, that would be great. Anyone else . Go ahead. I just want to add, i think with regard to doing the testing and the studies, from an industry privilege, we actually embarked on a monitoring activity to assess the type of emissions that were enculpberred in specific bands and figure out what impact would those emissions have on an imculp were going to share that with the Regulatory Community and dod as a way to move things forward with regard to how can you better share between federal and nonfederal assets. I think its a great idea. The idea of using the
The commute direction coming into the east bay, those are the lanes on the left. You can see its really slow going. Heading over to the peninsula doesnt look that bad at least at this hour. Weve been getting reports of heavy rain, lightning and thunder from many people in marin county coming into our newsroom today. So of course we sent out our own Noelle Walker to san rafael. Youre still getting soaked. We had these cells where it was dumping on us, and now were in a steady rain for the last couple of minutes. Weve seen sun, clouds, rain. Weve heard reports of thunder and lightning like you mentioned. We even saw a little bit of hail. What you saw depending on what you say and where you were. It was almost like someone had a faucet up there and they were turning it on and off throughout the day. We even had a brief hailstorm that we did experience. That came with a noticeable temperature drop. But that pea sized hail it just melted as soon as it hit the pavement. We talked to a couple
Small businesses are also dealing with the impact of 2018s Supreme Court ruling, in this case south dakota versus wayfarer. In the wayfarer decision, the courts gave the greenlight to Small Businesses becoming Tax Collectors when they sell online. Collecting taxes for states even where businesses had no brickandmortar presence. Small businesses had never been responsible for this kind of tax collection before. Almost immediately after the ruling came out, state states across the country became began passing these laws. Speaking out alongside them were those in New Hampshire, montana, also states without sales tax. That is why montana senator has been a leader on this issue. But its not just the burden of states without sales taxes. Its a burden for Small Businesses everywhere. Let me repeat that. It is a burden for Small Businesses everywhere. Sales taxes in america are very complicated. 45 states and different localities have different tax rates, different tax definitions for taxable