Canada’s four wireless players are maneuvering for advantage reports the Globe and Mail. It would represent a failure in the government’s years-long push to create more competition in the wireless business, according to the Globe and Mail. Mobile Service in Canada is Overpriced and Anti-Competitive, according to numerous studies. Mobilicity is one of three small [...]
On the eve of his return to Earth, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield (twitter) released a video of himself singing David Bowie’s 1969 classic “Space Oddity”. The video has some stunning shots of the station zooming over our planet, as well as Hadfield’s acoustic guitar drifting through a module. On 12 May 2013, Hadfield turned over [...]
Sports media giant ESPN has talked with at least one large U.S. carrier about subsidizing wireless access to its content, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. These discusions could potentially lead to a “toll-free” data plan with carriers and open up new revenue streams for both parties, says Fierce Wireless. ESPN now [...]
The Obama administration is on the verge of backing a FBI plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, reports the NY Times. According the the Times, the F.B.I.’s original proposal would have required Internet communications [...]
Fierce Wireless reviews the big 600 MHz auction due next year, which will auction off as much as 120 MHz, between TV channels 30-50. The 600 MHz band promises to enhance LTE coverage with even better range than the current 700 MHz band. But the number of licenses put up for auction depends almost entirely [...]
Qualcomm’s chief technology officer, Mat Grob, pitched the idea of small, private cellular base stations this week, showing a base station small enough to be integrated into a set top box or home router. “There really is no alternative,”said Matt Grob, Qualcomm’s CTO, during a presentation at the Qualcomm On conference in Santa Clara, California. [...]
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