The protests that led to the Egyptian revolution last year were organized in part by an anonymous Facebook page administrator. When the police found out who he was, they arrested and interrogated him. After his release, Wael Ghonim became the public face of the Egyptian revolution. In Revolution 2.0, Ghonim traces the planning that took [...]
CEOs at Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA and other smaller carriers sent a letter to lawmakers on Wednesday, urging them to preserve the ability of the FCC to design airwaves auctions. The letter (pdf) was sent to the 20-member panel tasked with crafting a year-long extension to payroll tax cuts for 160 million U.S. workers by [...]
Roaming between WiFi networks and cellular carriers will be getting easier, reports Marguerite Reardon at C/Net. The IEEE is developing 802.11u and the Wi-Fi Alliance has developed a Hotspot 2.0 initiative to enable easier roaming between hetrogeneous networks. Wi-Fi Alliance’s Hotspot 2.0 is certification program. It drew largely from 802.11u, which enhances network discovery and [...]
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., urged the Internet community on Tuesday to rally to push Congress to free up more unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi and other new wireless technologies. “It’s going to take your voices and the voices of a whole bunch of folks similar to what happened a few weeks ago … to just rise [...]
The Federal Communications Commission today voted to approve a comprehensive overhaul of Lifeline service, which helps tens of millions of low-income Americans afford basic phone service. The FCC also voted to improve data collection and a database to make it easier to verify a consumer’s eligibility and ensure one home doesn’t receive multiple reimbursements for [...]
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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