At this week’s IEEE’s INFOCOM conference in Barcelona, Spain, a technology to enable end users to pool their Wi-Fi Internet access and monitor for freeloaders was demonstrated. By pooling all available Internet connections, neighbors can enhance their Internet connectivity at no additional cost. That is, if neighbors are willing to share. And if it’s okay [...]
The Atacama desert in Northern Chile is the driest place on Earth. The dry mountains get an average of less than .004 inches of rain a year. Some places haven’t had rainfall in over 400 years. Blocked from moisture on both sides, by Pacific coastal mountains and by the inland Andes, it is virtually sterile. [...]
Vonage subscribers in the U.K. will soon be able to make mobile phone calls over the Internet, reports C/Net. Vonage and Wi-Fi hot spot operator The Cloud are working together to launch the service. Vonage subscribers who have paid for a specially enabled Wi-Fi mobile handset can make calls charged at landline rates from any [...]
Mobile Satellite Ventures is crowing about its latest patent “Space-Based Network Architectures for Satellite Radiotelephone Systems” from the U.S. patent office. It’s the latest in a long series of patent filings by MSV covering the development and operation of next generation satellite phone systems. The patent covers satellite networks in which the space-based transmitter and [...]
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 [...]
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