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Archive for December, 2006

FCC’s McDowell: You Decide

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 18th, 2006

U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell said on Monday he would not vote to break an agency impasse on the AT&T/BellSouth merger. That will likely adding pressure on the companies to offer more concessions to win approval, says Reuters.
According to C/Net, FCC General Counsel Samuel Feder’s consent to McDowell’s participation amounted to “an [...]

Aperto WiMAX in India

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 18th, 2006

Aperto Networks announced that BSNL, telecom service provider in India, has begun rolling out Aperto’s carrier-grade, WiMAX Forum Certified products.
PacketMAX base stations and subscriber units will be deployed across six cities and four rural areas in India. The six initial cities getting the WiMAX equipment are Kolkata (in West Bengal), Bangalore (in Karnataka), Chennai (in [...]

Chinese WiMAX: 3.5M by 2010

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 18th, 2006

WiMAX has an excellent opportunity to expand China’s market for fixed, portable, and mobile broadband access, reports In-Stat. However, WiMAX development in China is still confronting some barriers: immature 802.16e product, competition from the 3G industry, and uncertain spectrum allocation, the high-tech market research firm says.
“WiMAX does have many advantages in cost, flexibility, and deployment [...]

New China Transpacific Cable

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 18th, 2006

OPEN UP YOUR WINDOW AND SEE WHAT YOU CAN FIND,
SO MUCH INFORMATION TO EDUCATE YOUR MIND. — Lonelygirl 15
EE Times reports that Verizon Business has signed an agreement with a group of Asian telecommunications firms to build an advanced Trans-Pacific cable. It will initially provide capacity of up to 1.28 terabits per second [...]

Rev A Cards from Verizon

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 18th, 2006

Verizon Wireless is selling a EVDO Rev A network card, the Sierra Wireless AirCard 595 PC card. It offers up to 3.1 Mbps down and 1.8 Mbps up over Rev A.
It’s $99.99 (after a $50 rebate and a new two year customer agreement) and will be available through stores in January. The card supports [...]

Skype IPTV

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 18th, 2006

Skype is moving into IPTV, reports the Financial Times.
Code named the Venice Project, the creators of VoIP service Skype, hope to do the same for television.
The interactive and community features of the internet, coupled with the possibility of aggregating large numbers of viewers even for material of specialist interest, has led companies as [...]

Cingular Opens MySpace Account

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 18th, 2006

MySpace and Cingular have partnered to offer enhanced access to the site on mobile phones for Cingular customers, the companies said Monday.
The MySpace Mobile on Cingular deal allows Cingular’s customers access to MySpace Mobile, including tools like the ability to edit MySpace profiles, view and add friends, post photos and blogs, send and receive MySpace [...]

FCC: Moving on 700MHZ Public Safety Interop?

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 18th, 2006

The FCC will consider a rulemaking this Wednesday to implement a nationwide, broadband, interoperable public-safety network in the 700 MHz band, reports MRT Magazine.
Under current law, 24 MHz is earmarked for public-safety use while 60 MHz will be auctioned to commercial operators in a bidding process beginning by late January 2008.

Of the 24 [...]

iPhone Arrives: From Linksys

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 18th, 2006

Google and UK cellular operator Orange may be pairing up on a Google-branded cellphone that would come pre-loaded with mobile versions of Google apps like Google Earth, Gmail, etc., reports The Guardian.
There are already handsets that come pre-loaded with Google software, observes Engadget and in recent months they’ve also offered mobile versions of Google [...]

Mapping RFID & Santa

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 17th, 2006

A map of the world with RFID points of interest is available at the RFID Tribe website.
It uses a Google map, and pinpoints the locales of RFID associations, universities, end users and vendors. Being a Google Map, you can view it as a standard map or satellite view or as a combination of the [...]