Companies could bid as much as $28 billion if the FCC auctions licenses for 700 MHz-range frequencies, “assuming that the spectrum is unencumbered,” wrote William P. Zarakas and Dorothy Robyn of The Brattle Group, a consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass. Licenses in the lower 700 Mhz band have already been [...]
The Portland Tribune has a Portland Cloud Updater (but no real news):
Sometime this summer, [Portland] will ask private companies to bid on building a $10 million citywide wireless broadband network that offers low-cost Internet service to schools, hospitals, government, small businesses, individuals and, well, everyone under the cloud. [...]
EE Times reports the very high bit rate VDSL2 standard was ratified Friday (May 27) by the International Telecommunications Union. Infineon has a complete VDSL2/ADSL2+ chipset for end-to-end solutions that meets the specification. The new Infineon chipset drives symmetric 100Mbit/s over copper wires at distances greater than 350 meters [...]
Nancy Gohring says that Hunter Communications, which serves about 200 customers in Oregon, is using its own fiber network (newspaper story). It delivers real broadband
The ability of businesses to connect to our 100Mbps/1Gbps pure fiber backbone allows them the flexibility to remain highly [...]
The Guardian reports a new public transport system in Portsmouth, UK, is literally on the information superhighway. The city of 186,000 people is actually on an island, Portsea, and separated from the mainland by a narrow creek. Just three bridges serve a road network further swollen by tens of [...]
Gail Nakada at Wireless Watch Japan, goes inside NHK, Japan’s national broadcaster, at the NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories open house yesterday. The annual event is open to the public, this year’s show focused once again on digital TV broadcasting with three floors of cameras, servers, receivers [...]
Television programmers are looking to make the Web a lot more like TV, according to the New York Times.
On Tuesday, the emerging-media group at Scripps Networks, part of the E. W. Scripps Company, plans to introduce an all-video Web site that will use programming from its Food Network, Fine Living, HGTV [...]
Glenn Fleishman says it s too early to say whether it s a trend, but Victrola Coffee & Art in Seattle shuts down its free Wi-Fi on Saturday and Sunday.
I spoke to co-owner and co-founder Jen Strongin today after a colleague tipped me to the fact that this lovely, single-shop [...]
A draft bill that would force the digital television (DTV) transition to occur by Jan 1, 2009 was announced by the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee (). The committee, headed by U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), says broadcasters must cease transmitting programs in analog format by [...]
The Seattle Task Force on Telecommunications Innovation has just submitted a report (pdf) to the city council that includes recommendations on speeding up the deployment of wired and wireless broadband access throughout the city. According to the forward:
Seattle cannot afford to dawdle. Broadband networks will soon become what roads, [...]
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