paul kirby is our guest reporter. next question, mr. kirby. >> host: earlier this month you announced qualcomm was suspending sales of devices for your flow tv services, and there have been internet reports you're going to shut down that department entirely. can you give us an update on what happens if flow tv will happen with media flow because it's the same -- >> guest: yeah. media flow is the technology that underlies the flow tv network, so what we've done, as you said, is stop our direct to consumer sales. we were building with a partner a small stand-alone tv device. it didn't affect the sales through wireless operators, so if you have it on your phone, that's still operating. what we're looking at going forward is a couple of different possibilities to restructure it so that it works a little bit better from an economic standpoint. one may be just a sale to another party, and there are a wide range of interested parties there. the other possibility is is to stop doing what we were doing in terms of being the content aggregator an

paul kirby is with "telecommunications reports." his argus reporter. >> they announced that qualcomm has announced there'll be internet report still shut down the service is entirely. you said you've been having talks with various entities. can you give us an update of flo tv and what happens if flo tv will happen with media flow because it is the same -- >> guest: what we've done is we've said is dr. direct consumer sales. we were building with a partner, a small tv device. it didn't affect the sales through wireless operators. if you have it on your phone, that's still operating. overlooking that going forward is a couple of different possibilities to restructure so it works a little bit better from an economic standpoint. one may be just a field to another party and there are a wide range of interested partied they are. the other possibility is to stop doing what they're doing in terms of being a content aggregator and the service provider, but run it as a pipe. and we've had discussions with media companies were interested in do

. >> also a joining us on "the communicators" this week is paul kirby. >> the obama administration says they want to identify 500 megahertz of spectrum. why is that spectrum needed? >> some of the things they are talking about is to try to get large chunks of spectrum to get the broadcasters to move. we have some experience with that ourselves. before the digital television transition happen, we were able to convince some broadcasters to turn their systems off and let us broadcast. it will be more difficult getting it away from some governmental users. we have ideas about how you might be sharing of spectrum. any way we might determine that will open up the use of spectrum, whether it is one direction all because most systems have to be to directional, or used with another licensee that has primary access. we are trying to build technology that the -- that satisfies all of those things. people are using a lot of data on smartphones. in a few years, we are going to see more data used in one month that was used in one year in 2008. that is compared to 2014. people want access to all of th

paul kirby is a senior editor with "telecommunications reports." thank you both for being on "the communicators." >> guest: thank you. >> republican leader senator mitch mcconnell said on the senate floor today he supports a moratorium on congressional earmarks. >> if everyone would please be seated. the committee will come to order. i'd like to record to reflect that all eight members of the subcommittee are present. this hearing of the adjudicatory subcommittee of the committee on standards of official conduct in the matter of representative charles b. rangel will come to order. the constitution authorizes the house of representatives to discipline its members. in the house, the committee on standards of the official conduct discharge with recommending and enforcing ethical standards and ensure that members and staff act in a manner befitting the public trust. it's under that authority that we are meeting here today. this hearing is authorized by house rule 11, clause three and committee rule 23. the purpose of this hearing is to determine whethe

. >> host: paul jacobs is chairman and ceo of qualcomm, paul kirby is with "telecommunications reports," thank you both for being on "the communicators." >> guest: thank you. >> see what people are watching on the c-span video library with the most shared. it's right on our home page. click our special 2010 election analysis tab to view our continuing coverage of the midterm elections. watch what you want, when you want. >> in this week's question time, australian prime minister julia fill ard answered questions on the imf and world spank and the operations of australia's troops in afghanistan. from the australian parliament in canberra, this is a half hour. >> hello, i'm david spears in canberra. over the next half hour we're going to show you highlights of the latest edition of the australian pardon mement. nine years since the war in afghanistan began, the australian parliament held its first debate on australia's role there, and while the parliament can't decide whether australia should or shouldn't be involved in a war and there were no binding resolutions in this debate, it was o