Webformix announced the launch of several WiMAX transmitters throughout Central Oregon this week. Webformix says they are the first to launch 3.65GHz WiMAX service on the West Coast.
“WiMAX not only allows us to offer a huge increase in speed and range over traditional WiFi technology, but also meets security requirements for HIPAA and military applications,” [...]
We know things are bad - worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. [...]
Canada’s government has launched an auction of wireless spectrum on Tuesday, reports Reuters, that will allow new players to break into the cellular phone market in the AWS band (1.7/2.1 GHz).
A total of 105 MHz of AWS radio spectrum will be open for bidding (map), which includes 40 MHz of AWS spectrum specifically set [...]
The FCC is planning to auction 25 megahertz in the 2155-2180 MHz band to the highest bidder, reports RCR News. Chairman Martin said that a licensee winner of the 2155-2180 MHz spectrum (referred to as the AWS III band), would have to provide a free service tier, and would have to reach 50% of the [...]
Arthur Firstenberg wants the city of Santa Fe, to ban WiFi in public buildings on the grounds that he and his associates are allergic to the radio waves, reports USA Today.
“I get chest pain. It doesn’t go away right away,” he tells KOB-TV.
The station says Firstenberg and dozens of “other electro-sensitive people” are arguing that [...]
Google co-founder Larry Page was in Washington Thursday (May 22) to promote the company’s “white space” proposal for soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves.
Page will meet with lawmakers in Congress and officials at the FCC hoping to convince them to allow the “white space” between television channels to be accessed by low-power wireless devices.
“I think it will make [...]
The FCC has taken a first step toward re-auctioning the 700MHz “D block” in the 700 MHz band.
The FCC voted to ask for public comments (pdf) on how to re-auction the 10MHz piece of spectrum. Commissioners wanted to pair it with another 10MHz controlled by public-safety agencies to build a nationwide network shared by public-safety [...]
Sweden has concluded their auction of 2.6 GHz spectrum by the National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). Auctioning 190 MHz in the in the 2.6 GHz band raised a total of SEK 2.1 billion (USD 346 million).
Five companies won licenses. Intel Capital acquired one block of 50 MHz TDD spectrum for USD 26.2 million. [...]
T-Mobile became the last major mobile carrier to announce a 3G network today, but the first major carrier to utilize the AWS band (1.7/2.1 GHz) in New York City. But unlike Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon, T-Mobile’s 3G system is focused primarily on voice, not data. T-Mobile plans to expand their AWS service to 20 to [...]
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the requirement that Sprint Nextel vacate some of their wireless channels adjoining public safety channels.
Sprint, the nation’s third-largest wireless carrier, must clear certain channels by June 26, the appeals court ruled. The company is swapping spectrum with the public safety agencies to eliminate radio interference
The deadline was set [...]
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