NextWave plans to sell its U.S. wireless spectrum, ending all pretensions of becoming a mobile operator and allowing the carrier-turned-vendor to focus exclusively on its multi-faceted equipment and software businesses, says Telephony Magazine.
NextWave has hired a pair of financial consultants, Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank, to find a buyer for its 223 licenses divided [...]
Municipal Wi-Fi is dead says John Cox in a large review in Network World. At least in terms of the model whereby cities award an exclusive contract to a service provider and hopes to make money selling broadband to consumers.
But municipal Wi-Fi is also alive and well in a variety of other incarnations, including municipally [...]
MSI’s Wind Notebook is pretty much everything we’ve heard, says Engadget; about 1-kg weight; XP-only (at the moment); LED-backlit, 8.9- and 10-inch 1,024 x 600 displays; and traditional 80GB, 2.5-inch hard disk.
MSI claims to have a superior keyboard and battery life compared to the competition. No word on price or delivery date though a [...]
C/Net reports a Silicon Valley Democrat, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) on Thursday introduced the Wireless Internet Nationwide for Families Act, which would direct the FCC to auction off 2,155 - 2,180 MHz spectrum that currently lies fallow.
Rep. Ed Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat who leads a House telecommunications and Internet panel, and Rep. Chris Cannon, [...]
Public-safety groups scrambled to salvage support for a shared public/private national wireless broadband network, following calls by some House Republicans to abandon in the 700 MHz D-Block re-auction, reports RCR Wireless News.
“APCO International believes a public-private partnership between the D Block and public safety is currently the most viable option for funding and deployment of [...]
Gigaom’s Stacey Higginbotham says the Democratic Governor of Kentucky has vetoed two years of funding for the continuation of a statewide broadband expansion program called Connect Kentucky. Connect Kentucky has become a model for Connected Nation, a nationwide plan for rural broadband.
Governor Steven Beshear vetoed $2.4 million in state funding for Connect Kentucky, [...]
Corpus Christi, one of the first publically funded WiFi cities in the United States, sold the system to Earthlink in 2007. The city hoped Earthlink would provide Wi-Fi more broadly to residents of the city. Now the city may be getting it back.
Earthlink officially launched their $7 million city-owned wireless broadband network, at a [...]
Long Island’s wireless Internet project, a $150-million Wi-Fi system to cover 750 of the Island’s 1,200 square miles without a dollar of taxpayer funds, is months past its initial target date and its future looks doubtful, says Newday.
Last August, Suffolk County executive, Steve Levy (right), who originated the concept, was joined by the Nassau County [...]
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Firetide this week unveiled tri-band capability of its HotPoint access points and HotClient clients. Firetide equipment now operate over the 2.4, 4.9 and 5 GHz bands.
According to Manish Chandra, the company’s product manager, more municipalities are investing in wireless surveillance over the licensed 4.9 GHz public safety band, as seen in deployments in Dallas, Boston, [...]
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