Was EarthLink’s failed citywide Wi-Fi a blessing in disguise, asks C/Net’s Marguerite Reardon.
“The new network owners are supposed to have a much more sustainable business model,” said Karen Perry, director of the Connected Communities team for the Knight Center of Digital Excellence. “The fact that they are also focused on wired and wireless access will [...]
The FCC will conduct tests this week to see if the proposed 2150 MHz service interferes with T-Mobile’s ajoining AWS spectrum, notes Information Week.
The FCC wants to combine the 2155-2175 MHz band with the 2175-2180 MHz band to create a 25-MHz block of spectrum for a single nationwide license. This would then be auctioned off [...]
Hurricane Gustav (Times-Picayune coverage & Wikipedia), the tropical storm bearing down on the Gulf Coast, could be a test for the country’s wireless carriers, which faced criticism and a regulatory push after Hurricane Katrina took out networks.
Sprint Nextel’s Emergency Response Team, with trucks that can act as cell towers, was “caravaning down, military-style,” to the [...]
M2Z Networks announced this week that it submitted evidence to the FCC confirming that there is no need for the FCC to conduct the fifth interference test before licensing the AWS-3 spectrum to be used for a free nationwide broadband service.
M2Z hopes to offer 384kbps free (and content filtered) to 95% of the country [...]
Motorola’s technologies performed well in FCC “white space” testing, reports E-Week. Google, Microsoft, Motorola and other IT companies hope to exploit the digital television transition by delivering wireless broadband in the empty spectrum between digital television channels.
Motorola said Aug. 7 its geolocation device operated successfully in the Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing white spaces field [...]
The Bell operating company — formerly known as Southwestern Bell Corporation (SBC), now AT&T — knows a thing or two about political pressure. The San Antonio, Texas, corporation got the Bush administration to approve their purchase of the former AT&T Corporation, clear 90 MHz of AWS spectrum for their 3G service, and got approval for [...]
A merger between Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio was approved with conditions by the FCC today, clearing the way for a deal that will leave just one U.S. satellite radio service.
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 in favor of a proposal that would allow the deal to proceed as long as the companies [...]
Harbinger Capital today offered to front Skyterra $500 million to launch two satellites, says GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham. The private equity firm is also planning to push for a deal to acquire Inmarsat, according to Higginbotham. Harbinger already owns 28.8 percent of Inmarsat’s stock.
Harbinger is apparently confident that the FCC will look favorably on [...]
Engineers from Motorola and Philips, lugged their laptops, antennas and other equipment to parks, homes and high-rises around the Washington area, testing their “white space” gear, reports the Washington Post.
They’re hoping to prove to prove that the unlicensed airwaves between television stations, (”white spaces”), can work without interference to television stations.
Using white spaces “will [...]
Talks have intensified in recent days between the two satellite radio companies and FCC officials, says Reuters. Democratic FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein told Sirius he would provide a potentially decisive approval vote of their merger with XM if the companies met a stringent set of conditions designed to protect consumers and preserve competition.
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