gigaom.com - 10/14/2008
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Last Friday afternoon, the FCC issued a report putting to rest worries about interference from a free wireless broadband service using the AWS-3 spectrum, paving the way for an auction sometime next year. However, opponents of the auction, including T-Mobile, aren’t going to give up ...
fcc.gov - 10/13/2008
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all headlines 10/10/08 Media Bureau Finds Independent Programmers Make...
Prima Facie Case of Program Carriage Discrimination Against Cable Operators. MO : Word | Acrobat 10/10/08 ...
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gullfoss2.fcc.gov - 10/21/2008
voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/15/2008
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he
wants to allow portable devices to use the airwaves...
between TV channels for wireless broadband service. After months of testing and over a year of lobbying by tech firms Google, ...
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FCC Chair Wants to Go Forward With Use of White Spaces
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Unleashing the Moore’s Law of radios at last
Open Source —
... It is natural that incumbents will argue anywhere and everywhere against such choices. A free, open Internet market will mean higher costs and thinner margins. ...
Cox Unveils Wireless Plans to Keeps Telcos on the Offensive [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... , and even the creation of a free, filtered wireless broadband network, we may eventually see competition for broadband on the wireless side. Here’s hoping. ...
Cox Unveils Wireless Plans to Keep Telcos on the Defensive [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... , and even the creation of a free, filtered wireless broadband network, we may eventually see competition for broadband on the wireless side. Here’s hoping. ...
FCC To Rule on Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Originally, the FCC had talked about filtering that free wireless network to rid it of objectionable content for everyone, but in October, when the FCC issued a report saying that such a network wouldn’t interfere with T-Mobile’s network, a spokesman for the regulatory agency said the filtering provisions would only be aimed at children. That could stop some consumer advocates from protesting the FCC actions, but it won’t stop T-Mobile, which shows no signs of backing down, even though its efforts to stop the proposal on the ...
M2Z Needs FCC Win and $5 Billion [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... The plan would be to auction off spectrum in the AWS-3 and allocate it for two wireless broadband networks. One would be a free network delivering speeds of 768 kbps to 95 percent of the country with some kind of content filter, and the other would be a faster paid network that M2Z envisions selling access to for $20 to $30 a month. ...
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FCC To Rule on Nationwide Porn-Free Wireless Web [GigaOM]
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techliberation.com 11/29/2008 — I need not remind anyone here about FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s ongoing “ war on cable .” Even if you hate the cable industry or capitalism in general, there’s just no way I can see how anyone who believes in the rule of law ...
FCC: Consistent to a fault, but there is a (small) hope
networkworld.com 10/15/2008 — The FCC has put out a worse-than-useless report on the status of broadband deployment in the United States. I know this is far from news, since it seems to be the only kind of report on this topic that the FCC knows how to produce, but there may be ...
Supreme Court oral arguments in FCC v. Fox (Background)
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FCC to vote on free broadband Internet across USA
usatoday.com 12/2/2008 — Assuming the plan is approved at the FCC's Dec. 18 meeting, one of the agency's last before President-elect Barack Obama takes office, free broadband could become reality within a year. First proposed in 2006, the plan calls for a chunk of airwaves ...
Broadband Stimulus Plan? How About Some Data First
blog.wired.com 12/25/2008 —
During the Great Depression, the government tried to revive the economy with the New Deal's public work projects, and ended up paying people to dig unneeded ditches.
In today's deep recession, digital age advocates are trying to ...
Official Google Blog: A vote for broadband in the "white spaces"
googleblog.blogspot.com 11/4/2008 — All eyes are on the presidential election today, but another important vote just took place at the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 5-0, the FCC formally agreed to open up the " white spaces " spectrum -- the unused airwaves between ...
FCC to vote on opening up "white spaces"
googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com 10/16/2008 — Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 3:47 PM Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel For nearly two years, a broad-based coalition of public interest groups and technology companies including Google has been advocating for unlicensed ...
FCC Clears Free National Internet Plan
blog.wired.com 10/14/2008 —
Plans to offer national free wireless Internet access got a boost on Friday when the Federal Communications Commission released a report stating that the plan would not interfere with service from other wireless carriers.
FCC Chairman ...
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