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fcc.gov - 10/13/2008

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— fcc.gov — Hurricane Emergency Information, Click for more Information... Skip 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 ... (more) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Home Page

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voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/15/2008

FCC Chair Wants to Go Forward With Use of White Spaces

— 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, ... (more) FCC Chair Wants to Go Forward With Use of White Spaces

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engadget.com - 10/15/2008

Sony Ericsson's 8-megapixel C905 makes sweet love to the FCC

— engadget.com — So what do you think they take pictures of in an FCC lab when they've got an... 8-megapixel cameraphone handy? Oh, come on -- you know the technicians lucky enough to fiddle with fresh gadget after delicious, fresh gadget as they burn through ... (more) Sony Ericsson's 8-megapixel C905 makes sweet love to the FCC

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FCC may deliver a free wireless web
BloggingStocks — ... The day may be coming. According to The Wall Street Journal, a new FCC "report clears the way for the FCC to move forward with a plan to auction off airwaves to a bidder who agrees to offer free, national wireless Internet service." ...

Linkpost | 10.13.2008
TechBlog — ... October 13, 2008 Linkpost | 10.13.2008 Updated 2:31 p.m. • FCC Clears Free Wireless Web - Using the "white space" areas around occupied frequencies. Would be required to be nationwide within a decade. • ...

FCC: Free Wireless Internet Services Won't Interfere
Phone Scoop - Latest News — ... The FCC report said in particular that wireless broadband services can be offered "without a significant risk of harmful interference." The report clears the way for the FCC to auction off the airwaves. Some -- but not all -- of the airwaves will be set aside for free Internet. The free Internet network would have to cover 50% of the U.S. population by 2012 and 95% by 2018. The use of white space spectrum has been fought fiercely by a number of organizations, including T-Mobile USA. more info at Wall Street Journal ...

Free Wireless?
Know It All — Free wireless access to the net could be available to half the US population within four years, and 95% of Americans within ten years, according to an FCC report that is expected to lead to a new spectrum auction. Start-up ...

FCC may deliver a free wireless web
BloggingStocks — ... The day may be coming. According to The Wall Street Journal, a new FCC "report clears the way for the FCC to move forward with a plan to auction off airwaves to a bidder who agrees to offer free, national wireless Internet service." ...

Free nationwide wireless service on the way?
VentureBeat — ... A government proposal to initiate free national Internet on open airwaves could go ahead, providing free Internet to half the United States’ population in four years and 95 percent within a decade, according to the Wall Street Journal. ...

FCC Clears Free Wireless Broadband
WebProNews Feed — ... Hope you like a PG Internet, though Free speech issues weren t enough to knock down FCC Chairman Kevin Martin s push-through of a f ree national wireless Internet initiative , but few were talking about those free speech issue anyway. Neither were T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom AG arguments about signal interference which is the cry-wolf line of the wireless industry these days; after successful testing in Seattle, free wireless Internet is on the way. Well, Martin needed some decent legacy to point to during his tenure as the nation s chief communicator guy, right? Who gets ...

T-Mobile to FCC: We Would Agree With You, If You Were Right
Digital Daily — ... , paving the way for a sale of those airwaves at a federal auction. An unfortunate turn of events for T-Mobile, which has been aggressively lobbying against the idea, arguing that such a network would interfere with the services it offers in a band of spectrum — a band it spent $4.2 billion to license in 2006. “Obviously, we’re disappointed,” said Tom Sugrue, T-Mobile’s VP of government affairs. “From our preliminary review, [the report] has a number of critical flaws and misinterpretations of the data and some mischaracterizations.” ...

FCC approves the use of the white space spectrum for nationwide, free wireless internet
Boy Genius Report — Score one for Google and company as the FCC has cleared the way for the use of the white space spectrum for free, nationwide wireless internet service. Calling the reports of interference by the opposition as being “overblown”, recent tests conducted by FCC engineers in Seattle showed that the white space could be used for wireless internet service without a significant risk of harmful interference. Bad news for T-Mobile who has vehemently opposed the plan as their recently launched 3G network, which they purchased for $4 billion a few years ago by ...