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for smartphone usage and streaming entertainment, but he saw an equally important need for fixed wireless such as 2.5Ghz that is presently being trialed. Having grown up in southeast Kansas, he said there were real rural needs as well-- especially for agriculture and telemedicine. Shapiro suggested that Microsoft's airband proposal that uses white space between TV channels might be an option. Pai said he encouraged that and other innovative solutions. Calling the net neutrality battle more politics than policy, he suggested that Congress needed to provide more clarity about the spectrum so the FCC could free up as much as possible. "That is almost minor compared to the difficulty service providers are having finding/ training people to actually build out the infrastructure," he noted. City of Tomorrow Highlighting the importance of the show, Toyota unveiled the firm's Woven City, a prototype community of the future. Built near Mount Fuji, the company will build the 175 - acre planned community as an experimental lab for such technologies as self- driving vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells, robots, smart homes, personal mobility devices and more. Ordinary folks will live and work in the Woven City; and you can be certain companies and communities will be visiting and taking notes. Addressing the Issues The CTA sessions at CES explored issues and challenges companies and technology around the globe can help resolve. Privacy was mentioned as much as 5G and AI at CES, and more than a dozen sessions addressed the subject. The privacy supersession got the most attention because no- show Apple felt it was important to have Jane Horvath, senior director of global privacy, on the panel along with Facebook's chief privacy officer for policy Erin Egan; Proctor & Gamble's global privacy officer, Susan Shook; and FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. As you would expect, Egan got the toughest questions because of last year's data breach/usage scandals, recent FTC privacy penalty and FTC antitrust investigation. Every time Apple's Horvath touched on one of the company's privacy protection measures, Egan quickly said Facebook was just as protective, but the discussion was tense at best. P&G's Shook said not all location data sharing is nefarious, explaining her firm collects women's zip code data to