IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission rushed to judgment in giving permission in early 2011 for startup LightSquared to offer LTE service in a band of wireless spectrum next to a band used by GPS devices, several ...
Tags: FCC, GPS devices, LTE service, wireless service
Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy knocked out mobile, phone and cable service in many parts of the eastern U.S. on Monday, with about one in four cell sites affected in the hardest-hit band of the country between Virginia and Massachusetts, ...
Tags: Sandy, tropical cyclone, mobile, eastern U.S.
IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has conditionally approved a multibillion swap of wireless spectrum between Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and four of the biggest cable TV system operators in the U.S. But for the ...
Tags: wireless spectrum, T Mobile, cable TV system, data roaming
A subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives will hear testimony on Friday about whether the FCC followed its own rules when it gave LightSquared conditional approval for an LTE network early last year. LightSquared wants to build ...
IDG News Service - U.S. cellphone carriers took a major step on Wednesday toward curbing the rising number of smartphone thefts with the introduction of databases that will block stolen phones from being used on domestic networks. The ...
Tags: cellphone, smartphone thefts, SIM card, second-hand market
A Federal Communications Commission-led initiative has launched a program that will allow U.S.organizations to donate used computers to low-income people. "The costs of digital exclusion are rising,"said Federal Communications Commission ...
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IDG News Service - A U.S. Federal Communications Commission cap on rural telephone subsidies will cost jobs in rural areas and lead to higher prices for customers in those areas, a group of rural carriers said. The FCC's cap on payments ...
Tags: Federal Communications Commission, telecom, rural, US
The four largest mobile carriers in the U.S. -- AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile -- have agreed to accelerate the availability of emergency texting, or text-to-911. The four carriers have committed to major deployments of ...
Tags: U.S, mobile providers, emergency texting service, APCO, NENA
Demand for real-time data, including personal health information, will drive the market for wearable wireless devices to grow from 14 million items this year to as many as 171 million in 2016. In four years, the market for these devices ...
Satellite service provider Dish Network has slammed the FCC's plan to let it use some of its spectrum for LTE, saying the proposal is so restrictive it could delay a network buildout for years. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission ...
Tags: Dish Network, FCC, spectrum, LTE, network, mobile plans
Airplane passengers aren't the only ones fed up with restrictions on the use of portable electronic devices during takeoff and landing. Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has written a letter urging the ...
Tags: FCC, FAA, passengers, gadgets, portable electronic devices
Federal initiatives to make more spectrum available for mobile services are likely to take off running after President Barack Obama's re-election on Tuesday, a member of a presidential technology commission said. The government is trying ...
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Some wireless and wired communications services downed by Hurricane Sandy have been restored over the past 24 hours, but FCC officials said Wednesday afternoon that several serious outages remain in New York, New Jersey and some other hard ...
Tags: wireless communications, wired communications, communications services
Hurricane Sandy exposed a decided lack of contingency planning on Wall Street, according to a report by a research firm. With the Northeast still experiencing the effects of widespread storm damage, the business continuity plans of stock ...
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Google has joined US government concerns that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could get control of the internet through its coming revision of telecoms rules. The UN agency is updating its International Telecommunication ...
Tags: UN, Google, Internet, Computer Products