Dubious Achievements: 2005
- Municipal Broadband Is Not a Public Utility says the Heartland Institute which calls municipal networks“ an experiment with socialism”. Wi-Fi for the Masses takes a back seat as Broadband Bills roll out.
Texas Representative Pete Sessions tries to ban cities across the United States from wiring themselves for broadband.- The bill flounders when it is pointed out that Sessions is a 16 year ex-SBC employee, his wife works for Cingular, and he holds half a million dollars in SBC stock.
- “We aren’t Qualcomm. We are the alternative to Qualcomm”, says Ronny Haraldsvik, VP of marketing at Flarion, just months before Qualcomm Buys Flarion
“I know what I don’t know… and to this day I don’t know technology and I don’t know finance and accounting, ” said Bernie on the way to the Big House.- xMax demonstrates wireless broadband 1000 times more efficient than WiMax – and claims the technique could also make wireless LANs that will run for years on watch batteries. I can’t wait.
BellSouth renigs on the donation of a building to New Orleans after New Orleans announces a Free WiFi Cloud. “We are a little surprised by these comments,” says Bell South.- Sony settled a consolidated class-action root kit lawsuit. Consumers who purchased disks programmed with Sony’s virus can get a free replacement, $7.50 in cash, and a free download of one of 200 Sony albums.
- Intel convinces Broadcom, Atheros and Marvell to join forces outside of the IEEE to develop 802.11n scheduled to be presented for IEEE acceptance by November.
Ron Resnick says 802.16e will never adopt the Korean mobile WiMax standard. Then does. Mobile WiMax breaks compatibility with fixed WiMax. On to the WiMax Plugfest.
- PetCell, the first cell phone for dogs
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- FCC Locks Out DSL Competitors
- SBC/ATT merges and Changes Name to AT&T
- XM Buys 2.3GHz
- FCC Opens the 3650MHz band…especially in rural areas
- I think a more realistic title should be ‘the $100 gadget says Craig Barrett, about the $100 laptop. Says users would not be satisfied with the new machine’s limited range of programs.
Texas Representative Pete Sessions tries to ban cities across the United States from wiring themselves for broadband.“I know what I don’t know… and to this day I don’t know technology and I don’t know finance and accounting, ” said Bernie on the way to the Big House. BellSouth renigs on the donation of a building to New Orleans after New Orleans announces a Free WiFi Cloud. “We are a little surprised by these comments,” says Bell South.Ron Resnick says 802.16e will never adopt the Korean mobile WiMax standard. Then does. Mobile WiMax breaks compatibility with fixed WiMax. On to the WiMax Plugfest.Why is this man smiling?
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