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Dish Clarifies LTE-Advanced Plan

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 3rd, 2012

Dish Network, in its filing with the FCC this week, has argued against the restrictions that AT&T Mobility wants to impose on Dish’s spectrum licenses, reports Fierce Wireless. Dish also clarified elements of its nationwide LTE Advanced plan. Dish wants to use 40 Mhz of spectrum in the 2.1 GHz MSS (satellite phone) band that [...]

Formation Flying Swarmbots

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 1st, 2012

Some amazing formation flying experiments have been performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the University of Pennsylvania’s the GRASP Lab. The Quadcopter vehicles were developed by KMel Robotics. The quadrotors are X-shaped with a central control unit at their center. Based on commands, 16 quadcopters change direction, land, navigate past obstacles, and even [...]

Sprint Gives Lightsquared 6 Weeks

Posted by Sam Churchill on February 1st, 2012

Sprint Nextel will give LightSquared an additional six weeks to get approval to build its nationwide 4G LTE wireless network from the FCC or it will terminate its agreement with the company, according to Dow Jones Newswires. Sprint had previously extended its deadline from the end of 2011 until Jan. 31. Last summer Sprint and [...]

FCC Asks for Public Input on Lightsquared

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 30th, 2012

On Saturday, the FCC announced a request for comments (pdf) on the LightSquared situation. Comments are due by Feb. 27, and responses promised by March 13. LightSquared applauded the move. Lightsquared filed a petition for declaratory ruling to the FCC last month. The request is for input on LightSquared’s request for a finding on the [...]

WRC-12 Begins

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 24th, 2012

The U.S. Delegation to the World Radiocommunication Conference held a press conference in Geneva, yesterday, reviewing the goals of the US delegation. WRC-12 starts today in Geneva and runs through 17 February 2012. Every 3-5 years, the nations of the world meet at WRC to coordinate telecommunications frequencies, standards and policies. At yesterday’s press conference, [...]

Lightsquared Calls GPS Test “Rigged”

Posted by Sam Churchill on January 18th, 2012

LightSquared the satellite phone company that hopes to offer wholesale terrestrial LTE service, blasted the recent GPS testingon Wednesday. Lightsquared called the results from a federal GPS advisory board “rigged”, and asked federal agencies to look at the company objectively and proceed with high-precision GPS interference testing. The PNT Executive Committee letter (pdf), sent to [...]