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Clearwire: Show Us the Money

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 21st, 2008

It’s not “show friends.” It’s show *business*.
– Jerry Macquire

Ben Wolff, CEO of Clearwire, recently told USA Today that by the end of 2009, WiMax will be available to 60 million to 80 million US consumers and by 2010 they expect 140 million will be able to get the signal.
Sprint’s Xohm mobile broadband service [...]

FCC Commissioners: Coming to Your Town

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 20th, 2008

FCC Commissioners may be in your town this week for their DTV Outreach program.
The FCC identified target television markets for specific DTV outreach, including all those markets in which more than 100,000 households or at least 15% of the households rely solely on over-the-air signals for television reception.
The five FCC Commissioners and senior Commission [...]

DeviceScape: Seamless VoIP Handsets

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 20th, 2008

Today Devicescape announced its Devicescape Easy Wi-Fi for Handsets solution will enable Fujitsu to provide enterprise-level security and roaming access using the Fujitsu F1100 Smartphone.
Devicescape software maintains a WiFi connection on different access points automatically. The Fujitsu F1100 is distributed by NTT DoCoMo, a leading Japanese telecom operator, and is aimed at enterprise [...]

WhereCampPDX Unconference

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 17th, 2008

WhereCampPDX, a free conference focusing on all things geographical, is being held at the Souk office center in the Old Town neighborhood of Portland, Oregon on Oct 17-18.
It’s an unconference, modeled after O’Reilly’s WhereCamp and planned by the participants. Everyone gathers together, plans sessions, and have break-outs. It kicks-off with an art opening [...]

White Spaces: Green Light from FCC Report

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 15th, 2008

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said today that he will support allowing conditional unlicensed use of the so-called “white spaces” television spectrum. During a press conference, Martin said that he was proposing to let carriers and other vendors deploy devices in white space spectrum which operates unlicensed at powers of 100 milliwatts.
His proposal would also [...]

SpecEx.com: E-Bay for Licensed Spectrum

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 14th, 2008

Spectrum Bridge (FAQ) has been called the eBay of wireless spectrum. The company aims to link buyers and sellers in the secondary spectrum market.
The FCC has granted some licensees the right to unbundle their spectrum. Spectrum owners may resell it to other parties, lease it, or even timeshare it. Spectrum Bridge lets companies find [...]

New Apple Laptops

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 14th, 2008

Engadget and Gizmodo cover today’s Apple MacBook Event.

A redesigned MacBook and MacBook Pro are all but assured, says C/Net, but there are likely to be some other surprises too. Will Apple opt for Nvidia chipsets? Will there finally be a Mac sold for less than $1,000? Stay tuned.

The new MacBook Pros feature two graphic [...]

M/A-COM to NY: We’re Good

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 13th, 2008

Officials for Tyco Electronics M/A-COM last week told New York’s statewide wireless network advisory council that the company has remedied 17 of the 19 deficiencies identified by the state in the first phase of the network, a situation that has put the vendor’s $2 billion contract in jeopardy, reports Urgent Communications.

“We are very pleased [...]

FCC: 2150 MHz, No Problem

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 10th, 2008

A proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service on the 2150 MHz band got a boost Friday, says the Wall St. Journal. FCC engineers concluded that such a service would not interfere with other carriers (pdf report).

The report clears the way for the agency to move forward with a plan to auction [...]

Welcome to the White Space

Posted by Sam Churchill on October 10th, 2008

The FCC will soon release a report on the feasibility of opening up unused spectrum, or white spaces, for use with wireless broadband, reports Reuters. The agency’s engineering report will share results of several years of data collection, including field tests on Broadway in New York City and at FedEx Field in Maryland.
Google, Microsoft Corp [...]