The world’s first commercial White Spaces network launched Thursday in North Carolina. So far, the FCC has only approved one white spaces device — a 1.5-lb. rectangular-shaped radio from Florida-based KTS Wireless. The KTS device, used in the Hanover NC network, is a small, last-mile, transmitter. It uses the company’s frequency agile radio which received [...]

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Today the WiMAX Forum announced that effective February 1st, 2012, Ronald Resnick will retire from his role as the President of the WiMAX Forum. “Mr. Resnick has been a valued part of the WiMAX leadership for the past eight years,” said Dr. Mohammad Shakouri, Interim Chairperson of the WiMAX Forum. “The WiMAX Forum would like [...]

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Telecom networking giant Ericsson is buying BelAir Networks, adding its outdoor WiFi technology to Ericsson’s portfolio, reports Kevin Fitchard of GigaOM. BelAir gear is used extensively by AT&T (in NYC, Chicago and San Francisco), Cablevision (with a large-scale deployment in the NY area), and Time Warner Cable (with a large-scale deployment in the Los Angeles [...]

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During AT&T’s quarterly earnings call, CEO Randall Stevenson blasted the FCC over its leadership in making additional spectrum available to carriers, reports ReadWriteWeb. Stevenson said that because of AT&T’s spectrum crunch it will be forced to raise prices and take additional actions against the highest data users. Stevenson’s remarks come as AT&T announced that it [...]

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Ekahau, a Wi-Fi site-survey leader, today announced a new version of its Ekahau Mobile Survey for the Android. The app works with Ekahau’s fully-featured site survey tool with heat-mapping capabilities for enterprise Wi-Fi networks which was previously available only for laptop-based tools. Ekahau says the tool, designed for use on tablets and phones, is the [...]

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Today Google launched a new Google Crisis Response capability on Google Maps. Google Public Alerts is designed to bring you relevant emergency alerts when and where you’re searching for them. If you click through to “more info” on an alert, you’ll find a page showing more details about the alert, with the full description from [...]

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