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Archive for February, 2006

Trashing NAPLPS

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 24th, 2006

It’s moving day here at the DailyWireless tower. Posting will be light as we pack up for new digs by the river.
Twenty year old Byte magazines and the flotsam and jetsom accumulated over years cause one to pause and reflect…before tossing it out. Change is good.
Still, I hated to toss out my NAPLPS Teletext television. [...]

TradePub.com

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 23rd, 2006

How does DailyWireless keep up with wireless news and trends? It’s no mystery. We use the same newsreaders, search engines and blog news trackers that everyone else does.
One key advantage — we read LOTS of trade publications.
We LOVE trade publications. DailyWireless subscribes to more than a dozen. We also spend hours reading [...]

DirecTV Quinella?

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 23rd, 2006

Carlo at TechDirt notes:
DirecTV’s been talking for a while about its idea to create a nationwide broadband wireless network. It’s supposed to detail its plans sometime before the end of March, having already said it was in talks with rival Echostar about partnering on the network.
But in a Wall Street Journal article today [...]

Second WiMax Lab Announced

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 22nd, 2006

The WiMAX Forum announced today, a second WiMAX certification test lab, the first in Asia and likely to be the first lab to conduct certification tests for Mobile WiMAX gear.
Working in close collaboration with the Korean government and Cetecom Laboratories in Spain, the WiMAX Forum named Telecommunications Technology Association’s (TTA) IT Testing & Certification Lab [...]

Solar Powered Cloud

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 22nd, 2006

Accatel is now installing 90 Strix OWS nodes for an initial network deployment, to support 10,000 voice subscriber lines in an eight-square-mile area of Chittagong, a port city of Bangladesh, with 3.5 million people.
Stage 2 of the deployment, which will roll out 6-12 months after Stage 1, will add 15-20,000 voice subscriber lines. Within three [...]

Developing Cityware In Bath

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 22nd, 2006

A $2.78 million (1.6m pound) wireless computing trial in the historic city of Bath, England is being undertaken with a government research funding body the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)and a group of universities and companies including Vodafone, Nokia and IBM.
Dubbed the Cityware project, the aim of the trial, which is being coordinated [...]

Bills Expand Unlicensed UHF Access

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 22nd, 2006

ArsTechnica notes the US might allow unlicensed use of so-called “white spaces” in the UHF television spectrum. These white spaces are available even in heavily congested urban areas (San Franciso, for instance, has six channels vacant.

Two new bills want to open up this spectrum up.

The Wireless Innovation Act, introduced by Senators George Allen (R-VA) and [...]

Jump to Light Speed

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 22nd, 2006

Global Crossing announced today that it has selected Alcatel to deploy key capacity upgrades on its core international network. The company is adding wavelengths on its Mid Atlantic Crossing (MAC) system, which links North America, Latin America, Europe and the Pacific.
“By leveraging Alcatel’s next-generation DWDM submarine terminal, we’re ensuring the ongoing delivery of our comprehensive [...]

Google + Earthlink in Joint SF Proposal

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 21st, 2006

EarthLink and Google have teamed up and submitted a joint proposal to build the City of San Francisco citywide wireless municipal network, reports Om Malik. City officials did not release any details of the actual proposals or make them available Tuesday. They said a panel will review the bids and make recommendations by early April.

Customers [...]

Paris WiMAX Summit

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 21st, 2006

The Wimax Summit 2006: Deploying Broadband Wireless Access, is being held February 21 to 24 at the Sofitel Bercy hotel in Paris. The event will take place at the same time as the 8th edition of International SIP Conference and Alcatel’s Enterprise Forum.

Alcatel is demonstrating its enterprise mobility solutions at the Palais de Congres [...]