Lawmakers of both parties have announced separate legislation to create a nationwide public safety broadband network, reports the Washington Post. On Tuesday, Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) introduced a discussion draft of the Jumpstarting Opportunity with Broadband Spectrum bill (JOBS), which would allocate the D block of spectrum to public safety users — not auctioning off [...]
Wired reports that the Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a user does on a phone. Carrier IQ was installed by carriers such as [...]
WiMax network operator Clearwire may not be long for this world if they don’t make the the right decision about a looming debt payment, opines TechCrunch. According to Bloomberg , the company owes $237 million in the form of an interest payment due on Thursday, and the wrong choice could spell the end of the [...]
Intel CEO Paul Otellini said Windows 8 is “one of the best things that’s ever happened to our company,” reports C/Net Speaking at a Credit Suisse technology conference, Otellini said it was a myth that the PC is toast, that ARM will hurt Intel, and that the chip giant can’t do mobile well. Myth No. [...]
Verizon Wireless and Leap Wireless, parent of Cricket, have applied for a significant exchange of spectrum between the two companies, reports Mobile Burn. Leap will give Verizon a spectrum license that covers about 18.7 million residents, and Verizon will give Leap some Chicago area licenses that cover about 11 million residents (FCC pdf). In the [...]
The FCC staff study of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger proposal found substantial questions of fact and misstatements by AT&T regarding the effect the merger would have on competition in the wireless market (pdf report). The Verge summarizes the report’s skeptical findings. The FCC released the 109-page staff report (pdf), in a highly unusual move. The report [...]
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