FCC TAC Meeting Tackles Big Issues

The FCC's Technological Advisory Council (TAC) will hold its next meeting June 4, by teleconference.

The council includes members from Comcast, Charter, AT&T, and Cisco.

The meeting will have a high-profile docket, with working groups making presentations on 5G, the Internet of Things, Virtualized Radio Accesss Network (vRAN), unlicensed spectrum and devices, artificial intelligence, and more.

FCC Postpones vRAN Forum

V-RAN, for example, could be the software-based solution to removing Chinese telecom hardware from U.S. 5G networks.

TAC comprises experts helping the FCC identify innovative tech and create "informed technology policies supporting America’s competitiveness and job creation in the global economy."

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.