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Bewoners van de Statensingel in Rotterdam klagen over een vieze geur. Door een gesprongen rioolpersleiding is rioolwater in de singel terechtgekomen. Het waterschap neemt samen met de gemeente maatregelen om verdere verspreiding tegen te gaan. Er wordt geadviseerd contact met het water te vermijden.
De Rotterdamse wijk Feijenoord bestaat 200 jaar. Om dat te vieren staat er vanaf vrijdag tien dagen lang een reuzenrad op De Kaai, het voormalige Unilever-terrein en zijn er tal van activiteiten. Het feest moet bewoners bij elkaar brengen, maar op straat blijkt lang niet iedereen iets met het jubileum te hebben.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the gigabit speed goal established during the Biden administration and declared that current levels of broadband deployment in the US are acceptable. Though fiber networks have routinely offered such speeds for years, the FCC said the gigabit speed goal is not "technologically neutral," suggesting that it isn't fair to other, slower technologies.
In 2024, the FCC raised its broadband benchmark to 100Mbps downstream and 20Mbps upstream, setting the new standard by which to judge whether deployment is reasonable and timely. The FCC at the time also set a long-term speed goal of 1Gbps download speeds paired with 500Mbps upload speeds, saying it would use the goal "as a guidepost for evaluating our efforts to encourage deployment." Republican Brendan Carr, who is now the FCC chairman, never liked that long-term goal. He proposed abolishing it last year, and the change was finalized on August 14 in the FCC's latest broadband deployment report. The reports are mandated by Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act.
"As part of our return to following the plain language of Section 706, we adopt our proposal from the Notice [of Inquiry] to abolish without replacement the long-term goal of 1,000/500 Mbps established in the 2024 Report," the order said. "A long-term goal is not mentioned in Section 706 and could appear to violate our obligation to conduct our analysis in a technologically neutral manner. At present, it is impossible to predict long-term technological developments and the evolution of consumer preferences." The FCC said that comments submitted by cable industry group NCTA and wireless industry group CTIA "support our reasoning for abolishing the long-term goal." Last year, the Brendan Carr-led FCC said (PDF) that the gigabit goal "may be unreasonably prejudicial to technologies such as satellite and fixed wireless that presently do not support such speeds." However, last week's report contradicts that stance.
"We disagree with commenters arguing that our concern about technological neutrality merely serves to accommodate technologies that may currently offer slower speeds," the FCC said. "At present, we do not know the nature of future consumer preferences and, considering that the goal is not required by the statute and does not serve any positive purpose (as discussed herein), we believe it prudent to abolish it."
In 2024, the FCC raised its broadband benchmark to 100Mbps downstream and 20Mbps upstream, setting the new standard by which to judge whether deployment is reasonable and timely. The FCC at the time also set a long-term speed goal of 1Gbps download speeds paired with 500Mbps upload speeds, saying it would use the goal "as a guidepost for evaluating our efforts to encourage deployment." Republican Brendan Carr, who is now the FCC chairman, never liked that long-term goal. He proposed abolishing it last year, and the change was finalized on August 14 in the FCC's latest broadband deployment report. The reports are mandated by Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act.
"As part of our return to following the plain language of Section 706, we adopt our proposal from the Notice [of Inquiry] to abolish without replacement the long-term goal of 1,000/500 Mbps established in the 2024 Report," the order said. "A long-term goal is not mentioned in Section 706 and could appear to violate our obligation to conduct our analysis in a technologically neutral manner. At present, it is impossible to predict long-term technological developments and the evolution of consumer preferences." The FCC said that comments submitted by cable industry group NCTA and wireless industry group CTIA "support our reasoning for abolishing the long-term goal." Last year, the Brendan Carr-led FCC said (PDF) that the gigabit goal "may be unreasonably prejudicial to technologies such as satellite and fixed wireless that presently do not support such speeds." However, last week's report contradicts that stance.
"We disagree with commenters arguing that our concern about technological neutrality merely serves to accommodate technologies that may currently offer slower speeds," the FCC said. "At present, we do not know the nature of future consumer preferences and, considering that the goal is not required by the statute and does not serve any positive purpose (as discussed herein), we believe it prudent to abolish it."
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SEOUL (ANP/RTR) - Noord-Korea heeft volgens het Zuid-Koreaanse leger meer dan tien ballistische korteafstandraketten afgevuurd in de richting van de Japanse Zee. Zuid-Korea is volgens het leger "waakzaam en heeft een ferm defensiebeleid samen met de Verenigde Staten. Provocaties kunnen snel worden beantwoord", volgens het leger.
De Noord-Koreaanse raketproeven komen terwijl de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump kortgeleden suggereerde dat er weer een dialoog zou kunnen zijn met de Noord-Koreaanse dictator Kim Jong-un. In de eerste ambtstermijn van Trump ontmoette hij Kim in 2018 en in 2019.
NEW YORK (ANP/RTR) - Carlos Alcaraz keert na een afwezigheid van meer dan vier maanden terug op de tennisbaan. De 23-jarige Spanjaard is hersteld van een polsblessure en doet mee aan de US Open, waar hij vanaf 30 augustus zijn titel verdedigt.
Alcaraz wilde aanvankelijk vorige week zijn rentree maken bij het toernooi van Cincinnati, maar hij koos ervoor om zijn pols meer tijd te geven om te herstellen. Alcaraz voerde de afgelopen weken zijn trainingsintensiteit geleidelijk op en trainde met de Deen Holger Rune in Murcia om de blessure op hogere intensiteit te testen.
Zevenvoudig grandslamwinnaar Alcaraz won in 2022 op de US Open zijn eerste grandslamtitel en werd toen de jongste speler die de nummer 1-positie op de ATP-ranglijst bereikte.