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- Spectrum
- The range of electromagnetic radiation electromagnetic waves in our known universe, which includes visible light. The radio spectrum, which includes both licensed and unlicensed frequencies up to 300 GHz...
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- What does FCC's decision on white spaces spectrum mean for wireless?
- Despite Dolly Parton's best efforts, the FCC voted unanimously yesterday to open up the unlicensed white spaces spectrum to companies hoping to build wireless devices that can make use of the spectrum, which currently sits unused between TV channels. (A PDF version of the official press release is here.) Because...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Broadband, Spectrum, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Federal Government, Wireless, WiMAX, Network Technology, Government, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cardsCo-optingIf the new frequencies are open to any company and if some companies are threatened by competition using the new frequencies, then why shouldn't the threatened companies jam the new frequencies?That seems one of the points of this quoted quote:The...
- Tags: Federal government, Wi-Fi, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Amateur Radio, white space, spectrum, FCC, wireless
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- FCC agrees to free white-space spectrum
- FCC agrees to free white-space spectrumAccording to Richard Koman......this wasn't about Google. So does this mean what's good for Google is good for America? Does it also mean no more Garth Brooks and Britney Spears singing with wireless microphones?Carl RapsonRE: FCC agrees to free white-space spectrumWhat are the rules that...
- Tags: Federal government, spectrum, white-space spectrum, Google Inc., FCC
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- FCC agrees to free white-space spectrum
- America wins. Large broadcasting companies and makers of devices like wireless microphones are squirming today after the FCC announced that it has voted in favor of Google -- freeing the frequencies between television channels to create a wireless broadband service. What does that really...
- Tags: FCC, Spectrum, Wireless Broadband, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Federal Government, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Government, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Golden era of open spectrum dawns
- While you were watching Barack Obama become President-elect something just as Earth-shattering was happening in Washington. The golden era of open spectrum was launched. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Era, Dana Blankenhorn, Wi-Fi, Spectrum
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
- The Federal Communications Commission has opened up so-called wireless white spaces--unused spectrum between broadcast channels--in a move the agency hopes paves the way for 'Wi-Fi on Steroids'. In a statement following the FCC's 5-0 approval Techmeme, Chairman Kevin Martin said: Opening the white spaces will allow...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., WiMAX, Broadband, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Telecommunications, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- The tangled web of broadcasting regulations
- The FCC is preparing to approve licensing of "white space" spectrum, which is good for the public even if it poses challenges for broadcasters and mobile networks who paid top dollar for the right to have fewer competitors. Likewise, though the NAB supports a delay in the switchover to...
- Tags: Web, Regulation, Broadcasting, John Carroll, FCC, Spectrum, Switchover, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- White Space devices pass key technical test
- White space devices -- which take advantage of used portions of the television spectrum -- have passed the "burden of proof" stage, the FCC says. They work, and they don't interfere with TV or wireless mics. If we actually get wireless net on white space spectrum, it will have...
- Tags: Spectrum, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman, Device
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- The candidates on tech
- Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....
- Tags: Industry, Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Obama, H-1B, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- FCC: Free wireless spectrum won't harm T-Mobile
- Back in May, the FCC was to vote on rules for a national free wireless spectrum along the lines of a proposal by M2Z Networks. But rather than handing over 25MHz of spectrum to the Kleiner Perkins-based company, the FCC decided to auction the spectrum off to...
- Tags: FCC, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Sustainability is big concern for mobile telcos says head of Orange Mobile
- I recently met with Olaf Swantee, the head of Orange Mobile, a large telco owned by France Telecom. Mr Swantee said sustainability and the availability of spectrum were two key challenges. Other highlights from the interview: -WiMAX is not...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Sustainability, Mobile, Telecommunications Company, Spectrum, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- I am I, GoogQuixote, the lord of free wireless
- Google has now launched a campaign called FreeTheAirwaves aimed at making the "white space" between auctioned channels unlicensed. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Monopoly, Spectrum, Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Video: Spectrum ZX game montage
- From Neil Young's keynote at iPhoneDevCamp. Young says that anyone can make a game these days, but it was a very complex feat in the 1980s, back when he was just starting out. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Video, Spectrum, Games, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- Closed spectrum means closed source
- Closed spectrum means closed sourceYawn... where's the anti-MS rant that zealots loved to feast on.Oh, well.Do you want to.......get on a plane when air traffic control doesn't have exclusive use of its frequencies (voice, radar, Nav aids)?...watch television when you have a crummy picture or no picture because the TV...
- Tags: Aerospace & Defense, TVs, spectrum mean
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Stop the spectrum auction madness
- Before one more colleague speculates on rules for spectrum auctions, can I make one suggestion? Stop. Over the last several years we've had auction-after-auction, all ostensibly designed to provide competition to the Wireless Trust. Has it? No, it hasn't. The Trust...
- Tags: Hardware, Spectrum, Auction, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- The power of open spectrum
- The power of open spectrumgreat ideea but...even the open spectrum needs some regulation, because otherwise it will be abused by some using high powered devices over a wide spectrum.Ideally a new protocol that would allow devices to play nice in this spectrum is needed.Here's a philosophical question for you:[i]As I...
- Tags: Blogging, Google Inc., spectrum
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- The power of open spectrum
- The power of open source isn't moral or ethical. It's practical. Open source delivers better value to consumers of software, and thus to all of us. It creates economic arrangements which not only lead to profit, but to greater use of the resource. Open...
- Tags: Spectrum, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Google's Page pitches for white spaces in DC
- Google's Larry Page is in Washington, talking up white spaces to Congress – and speaking out against lobbyists, as well. Page met with key lawmakers including House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) and policy makers at the Federal Communications Commission, the Post reports. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Page, Spectrum, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Cyren Call denies it demanded D block payment
- Cyren Call – the corporation formed to advise the Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corp. -- angrily denied accusations that it or PSST demanded spectrum lease payments. Voices in some quarters have been saying that the alleged demands doomed the efforts of Frontline Wireless to compete for the D block and...
- Tags: Payment, Spectrum, PSST, Operational Accounting, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Gag lifted, Verizon, AT&T, Google open up on FCC 700 Mhz auction
- The Federal Communications Commission has lifted its gag order on the winners of the 700 Mhz auction and those telecom giants have been a chatty bunch. And all of them are talking about advanced wireless broadband service. A brief recap Techmeme: AT&T reckons that...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Spectrum, Auction, Wireless Broadband, Broadband Internet, Wireless, Telecommunications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
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