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Archive for March, 2007

International Wireless Communications Expo

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 28th, 2007

While CTIA 2007, the giant cellular/wireless show is going on in Orlando, Florida (March 27-29), another expo for public safety professionals, the International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) is running concurrently in Las Vegas, Nevada, (March 28-30). IWCE is sponsored by MRT magazine and is generating lots of news for public safety and Land Mobile Radio [...]

Google Apps on LG Phones

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 28th, 2007

LG Electronics announced it will install Google Inc.’s software for cellphones on “millions” of LG phones through a new partnership between the two companies. The agreement is the latest such handset deal for Google, which announced similar deals with Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and others. “Building on our efforts to set new standards for wireless [...]

Frontline Files 700MHz Plan with FCC

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 27th, 2007

Frontline filed their Public Safety Broadband Deployment Plan with the FCC today (pdf) which would share 10 MHz of commercial spectrum in the 700 MHz band with public safety users. In the FCC’s Ninth Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (pdf), the FCC proposed that 12 MHz of public-safety spectrum currently would be licensed to a national [...]

Sprint’s WiMAX Cities

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2007

Sprint announced further WiMAX details today, citing wireless device and chipset initiatives and identifying additional service markets. “Recent developments attest to the viability of our strategy, as more companies align with our vision and apply their expertise to the momentum building behind Sprint WiMAX services,” said Barry West, president, 4G Mobile Broadband for Sprint. Sprint [...]

Free Telecom Magazines

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2007

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 trade [...]

Bob Garfield’s Post-apocalyptic Media World

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 26th, 2007

Bob Garfield, pundit for Ad Age and NPR’s On The Media, smashed media complacency two years ago with his brilliant essay, The Chaos Scenario (MP-3) What if TV as we know it were replaced by something really, really cool? CHORUS: [SINGING] MEET GEORGE JETSON- BOB GARFIELD: Let’s say it’s 2020. George’s job at Spacely Sprockets [...]