Thanks for making 2007 so interesting and enjoyable!
Tonight marks the 100th anniversary of the Ball Drop in Times Square.
A million people will crowd Times Square to watch the ball drop atop the One Times Square building at midnight, estimate the New York police. A billion are expected to watch the spectacle on video. [...]
Predicting the top 2008 wireless stories is always fun. Here are a few fearless websites:
EE Times has Seven Global Predictions for 2008:
(1) The “Next Big Thing” will have a global, not a U.S. consumer focus.
(2) The sucking sound of semiconductor research, design engineering, and software development rushing out of Silicon Valley will become deafening in [...]
It’s December 31st — time to round up the big stories of 2007. First, let’s review the top 2007 stories from other sites:
Unstrung’s 2007 Top Ten Wireless Stories
10. Cisco goes WiMax
9. Rural takeover
8. Emerging markets
7. Carriers start to pick 4G technology
6. Muni dreams fade
5. Sprint’s WiMax tribulations
4. Verizon’s ‘Open Access’ plans
3. 700 MHz wireless broadband [...]
According to RCR News, the FCC recently decided to better ascertain how competing 2.3 GHz band wireless services in the United States can operate without disrupting each other. Terrestrial satellite radio repeaters (DARS) and spectrum for 2.3 GHz Mobile WiMAX threaten to become another Nextel debacle, creating interference and disruption from battling services on neighboring [...]
Telsima announced WiMAX 450/700 MHz gear at the India Telecom 2007 show at New Delhi, 2007. The Telsima solution can be customized for any specified band within that range — by default it supports the 450 MHz and 700 MHz bands.
Telsima uses standard WiMAX SoC, leveraging all the benefits of this open standard point-to-multipoint [...]
The long-awaited WiFi service on the Bremerton-Seattle ferry route, became available this week, reports the Kitsap Sun. It allows riders to surf the Web, and check e-mail during the hour-long crossing. Additional ferry customers could be added on Monday if testing goes well.
The service, which went live on Christmas Eve without any fanfare, brings Wi-Fi [...]
Older OnStar systems that operate over AT&T’s original analog cell phone network will be going off-air on January 1, 2008. OnStar has about 500,000 users who will no longer have access to their automotive emergency communication services. As many as one million cell phone users and about 400,000 wireless home security systems will also be [...]
Airspan Networks, announced today that it had obtained FCC certification to market its HiperMAX base station in the 3.65GHz band in the United States. It’s the first of a series of products planned for this band, says the company, which will include their MicroMAX, a compact base station, and several subscriber devices including the EasyST [...]
SkyTerra and Inmarsat have reached a major pact to offer L-band hybrid mobile satellite services in North America, reports RCR News.
“We have worked long and hard with Inmarsat to develop this agreement, which sets operational parameters in the L-band for existing satellite operations and lays the groundwork for future cooperation to address consumers’ demand [...]
John J. Roese, the CTO of Canadian-based Nortel, oversees 12,000 scientists, engineers and designers. Here’s an interview with Forbes magazine:
Forbes: There’s been a lot of news about WiMAX and LTE. Is 4G coming faster than most think?
Roese: At the beginning of 2007 and the end of 2006, we said 4G would happen faster than the [...]
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