What is DISH Networks going to do with their 6 MHz block, won in the FCC’s recent 700 MHz auction?
According to Unstrung, Frontier Wireless, the wholly owned subsidiary of Dish, bid about $711.8 million to snap up 168 licenses in the E-block during the recent 700 MHz auction. Their 8-K document filed Friday (March [...]
Adopting a “white spaces” vision, Google is resurrected the 700 MHz band this week with a letter to the FCC presenting its plans to provide wireless Internet access to the entire U.S. (FCC pdf).
Google and other technology companies including Intel, Philips and Microsoft have pressed the FCC to open up the unused TV airwaves [...]
Dale Dougherty in O’Reilly’s Radar Blog writes:
Our town, Sebastopol, had passed a resolution in November to permit a local Internet provider to provide public wireless access. This week, fourteen people showed up at a City Council meeting to make the claim that wireless caused health problems in general and to them specifically. These emotional pleas [...]
Canadian space hardware company COM DEV International, today announced that it has received an intial CDN $4.7 million contract from EADS Astrium to supply multiplexer and switch equipment for the Eutelsat KA-SAT communications satellite.
Scheduled for launch in mid-2010, KA-SAT will provide consumer broadband services across Europe and the Mediterranean Basin, while providing new opportunities [...]
TeleCommunication Systems is demonstrating location fixes over a WiMAX network using Assisted Global Positioning System (A-GPS) technology in their TCS Xypoint Location Platform. It runs on a live, commercially-deployed WiMAX network in the Pacific Northwest, presumably Clearwire.
TCS’ Xypoint Location Platform collects the GPS location over the WiMAX network. A Web-based location tracking application regularly queries [...]
The pioneers in domestic satellite communications might teach the Federal Communications Commission a thing or two about frequency auctions.
I’m talking about Canadian telecommunications, of course.
Canada’s upcoming AWS band spectrum auction (1.7 GHz/2.1 GHz) begins on May 27, 2008. Canada is auctioning three chunks of spectrum, with the Advanced Wireless Spectrum (AWS) the most [...]
Next to winning the Civil War and abolishing slavery, building the first transcontinental railroad, from Omaha Nebraska to Sacramento, California, was the greatest achievement of the American people in the nineteenth century. — Nothing Like It In The World
It was hailed as Internet for the masses when Philadelphia officials announced plans in 2005 to erect [...]
Verizon and AT&T, now own the bulk of the frequencies in the 700-megahertz band, formerly used by UHF television stations. Signals at these frequencies penetrate buildings better than current cellular service, which operates at 850 and 1900 megahertz. KB Enterprises has maps of the winning bidders.
The FCC’s 700 MHz auction raised $19.6 billion for the [...]
Australia’s first WiMAX operator has branded the technology as a “miserable failure” and has decided to close its WiMAX network which they described as a “disaster,” says NowWeAreTalking.com, a website sponsored by Telstra, Australia’s incumbant telephone and broadband provider.
Head of Public Policy & Communication for Telstra, Dr Phil Burgess has called on the government [...]
Seattle will formally ask companies in September for proposals to construct a fiber-to-the-home broadband network, a project that would challenge the Comcast-Qwest lock on the market, reports the Seattle Times.
But at least one City Council member Wednesday questioned whether Seattle should give more consideration to managing the system itself, rather than simply offering its assets [...]
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