A co-founder of Nextel, through Cyren Call Communications, urged the FCC to establish a Public Safety Broadband Trust to hold the license for a key segment of spectrum in the 700 MHz band in a filing to the FCC.
They want to move spectrum that was previously allocated strictly for commercial use into shared public [...]
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 34-22 on Wednesday to defeat a Democrat-sponsored Net Neutrality amendment that would have prevented AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from creating “tiered” internet access. Members of the committee rejected Edward Markey’s measure that would have barred telcos from creating higher access fees from competing internet content companies.
The issue pits [...]
The Ressurection of Al Gore, by Karen Breslau, says…”Now Al Gore has found his true calling: using the power of technology to save the world”…
Her Wired story may not have much to do with wireless (Current.tv excepted), but it’s such a nice piece of writing, I thought I’d pass it along.
I’m still pumped [...]
Annapolis Maryland is getting free WiFi with ad-supported hotspots, reports the Baltimore Sun.
Annapolis Wireless, a local company, is holding an official wire cutting on April 29, 2:30 pm in a public ceremony. Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich, Mayor Ellen Moyer and county officials will be on hand to celebrate.
“Companies like Annapolis Wireless [...]
TeleCIS today announced its TCW 1620 WiMAX chip, said to enable both low-cost, indoor “self-installed” customer premises equipment (CPE) for fixed WiMAX services as well as “portable” services.
The TCW 1620 is based on the standard (IEEE 802.16-2004) for “fixed” WiMAX. TeleCIS says their chip will enable consumers to buy and install their own fixed [...]
Vint Cerf, the “father” of the Internet and currently Internet Evangelist at Google, kicked off the jam-packed Digital Cities Expo in Reston Virginia today (Agenda, Speakers and Sponsors), with a wide-ranging keynote speech, reports IP Democracy.
Cerf offered first a bird’s eye view of the development of the Internet, noting that [...]
Robert Price has the skinny on Nokia’s three new NSeries phones, the N72, the N73 and the N93. Nokia has a demo, specs and description.
The N72 (pdf) has a 2 megapixel camera, integrated digital music player, integrated browser, FM radio and Visual Radio. It runs on the S60 2nd Edition Operating System.
The N73 (pdf) [...]
The Desktop Linux Summit (Agenda), is being held April 24 & 25, in San Diego. The movement to bring Linux to the desktop is coming home, explains the AP:
In a move to make the freely distributed Linux operating system a stronger alternative to Microsoft’s Windows, a group of major Linux distributors announced [...]
The National Association of Broadcasters holds their big Las Vegas show this week featuring more than 100,000 attendees, 1,400 exhibitors, hundreds of conferences and press releases and Monday Highlights.
“When you think of the National Association of Broadcasters you think of an organization that focuses on government representatives on behalf [...]
Broadcom has named some of the companies to whom it has shipped production quantities of its draft-802.11n standard compliant Wi-Fi chips. They include Buffalo Technologies, Netgear, and US Robotics.
Broadcom says it has shipped Intensi-fi chipsets to other leading manufacturers of 802.11n equipment that it would not identify, says EE Times.
Eyebrows were raised [...]
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