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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
First responders in the San Francisco Bay Area may use a dedicated LTE network beginning next year, after a regional authority approved a 10-year deal for Motorola Solutions, funded primarily with a federal stimulus grant. The dedicated 700 MHz public service LTE network will enable first responders to use broadband applications on a private LTE [...]
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