FCC approves broadband Internet plan, promises 500000 jobs

FCC approves broadband Internet plan, promises 500000 jobs
Los Angeles Times
The new broadband internet access plan will come in the form of changes to the FCC's existing Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation systems. "Those systems have been widely viewed as broken, and long overdue for reform," the commission ...
La. senators push appeal of $80M US grant loss
BusinessWeek
Bobby Jindal's administration should appeal a federal government decision to rescind an $80 million grant to expand broadband Internet connections to rural and poor areas of Louisiana, lawmakers urged Friday. The US Department of Commerce announced it ...
iPhone 5 Said to Lead LTE Charge as Sprint Preps New 4G Network, Devices
Channel Partners
He said his company is in talks with Apple about an iPhone based on TD-LTE, China's homegrown4G technology. So when we exactly will we see an LTE iPhone? Some analysts are already predicting it will be introduced at Apple's Worldwide Developers ...
Motorola Droid Bionic has dual core processor, Android OS, 4G LTE speed, and a ...
Mobile bloom News
The Motorola Droid Bionic 4G Android smartphone is the first handset with a dual core processing chip set to arrive on Verizon's 4G LTE wireless broadband network. If you bear in mind that the first phone on the Verizon 4G LTE (the HTC Thunderbolt) set ...
How to Invest in 4G Networks and Still Sleep at Night
Motley Fool
Verizon (NYSE: VZ ) and AT&T are already building their LTE networks and even current WiMaxenthusiast Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S ) plans to join the LTE parade. Handsets using LTE technology are almost unheard of today, but market watcher In-Stat expects ...
Lightsquared antenna fix solves potential billon-dollar problem
VentureBeat
Mobile broadband startup LightSquared has developed a new antenna in cooperation with PCTEL that will prevent the company's new 4G LTE network from interfering with high precision GPS receivers, the company has announced. Lightsquared had run into ...
Reliable Wireless Broadband Access in Rural Washington Makes Us All Safer
Sacramento Bee
The only thing missing in many areas of Washington is reliable wireless broadband connections. As a member of the Washington Fire Commissioners Association, I know first-hand the need for reliable communication among departments, quick assessment of ...
MediaTile Announces HumanKiosk Solution on Verizon 4G LTE Network
TMC Net
By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor MediaTile, a provider of 3G and 4G cloud-based digital signage solutions, announced the availability of its HumanKiosk Solution, powered by the company's MediaCast Video Presence system, on Verizon 4G LTE (News ...
Samsung Epic Touch 4G: Largest Smartphone Screen, First US Galaxy S II
Mobile bloom News
Sprint launched the Samsung Epic Touch 4G on their 4G WiMAX network on that date. Sprint beat all other US wireless carriers to market, and the Epic Touch 4G is the first Galaxy S II version to hit the United States. When making contractual obligations ...
Sony PRS-T1 Reader Wi-Fi Cover with Light Review
The Gadgeteer
by Janet Cloninger on October 29, 2011 · 0 comments I just posted a review of the new PRS-T1 Reader Wi-Fi ebook reader from Sony, and I mentioned that you have to have a light to read in dim or dark rooms. That's the nature of eInk screens – they have ...
$16M promised for broadband in Chicago suburbs
BusinessWeek
Gov. Pat Quinn and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced a partnership Friday at South Suburban Community College. The state will put in $6.1 million and the county promises $10 million. The project will mean more than 70 miles of new ...
HTC WiMAX 4G Security Vulnerability Exposed [Open WiMAX Ports Endanger ...
TFTS (blog)
It was recently discovered that HTC devices have some serious security vulnerabilities no thanks in part to their WiMAX 4G connection. It's an issue that you wouldn't notice at all if it's not pointed out, but you don't have to worry — you can fix it ...
Consumers want 4G, even though they don't understand it
allvoices
Makes sense: non-techies just see two-letters (4G). Techies see the additional words (HSPA+, LTE,WiMax). There is legislation running around in the US A new bill presented to the US Senate that would require wireless carriers to clarify what the ...
EU Countries Must Devote 800MHz Band to Wireless Broadband by 2013
PCWorld (blog)
By Jennifer Baker, IDG News Europe's Council of Ministers has said that all European Union countries must make the 800MHz band available for wireless broadband services by Jan. 1, 2013 as part of an ambitious deal agreed on Friday. ...
4G World: DragonWave doing microcells with a twist
ConnectedPlanet
DragonWave wasn't the only backhaul vendor using 4G World as a launch point for new products. Ceragon networks introduced to its FibeAir a new high-capacity radio unit optimized for Ethernet backhaul networks feeding the highest capacity 3G and LTE ...
New 4G Mobile Broadband Solution Announced by Alcatel-Lucent
TMC Net
In a separate statement, Alcatel-Lucent announced that its technology is being used by US regional service provider Big River Broadband to develop a 4G LTE (News - Alert) service in seven counties of Missouri. Madhubanti Rudra is a contributing editor ...
LG Revolution 4G Gingerbread 2.3 update now available
PopHerald.com
LG Revolution 4G, the Korean company's first LTE or Long Term Evolution Android smartphone running on Verizon's 4G network, finally receives its Gingerbread 2.3 update that will give users a set of new features including the much-needed battery ...
Poll Results: Most Companies Secure Their Wi-Fi
PCWorld
The results showed that very few business and IT managers appear to Only 5 percent of respondents identifying as IT managers said they have an open Wi-Fi network without password protection. Thirty-nine percent put users and guests on separate networks ...
Shaw to trial WiFi hotSpot
The Wire Report
“HotSpot 2.0 brings together a common set of standards that deliver a 4G-like end-user experience toWi-Fi authentication, security, and roaming and is further confirmation of the significance of Wi-Fi in the broadband wireless ecosystem."
Sprint says iPhone 50% more efficient than 3G/4G smartphones
ConnectedPlanet
Sprint also did not provide any details on how they expect average usage per phone to increase going forward even though it believes that Apple will support it with a faster LTE phone in the future. Finally, Verizon has told us that overall usage on an ...
Rural broadband project start imminent
Sangre de Cristo Chronicle
By Jesse Chaney The first shovels to hit the earth were just for show, but construction on Kit Carson Electric Co-op's $64 million broadband fiber-to-the-home project is expected to start within a matter of days. Kit Carson CEO Luis Reyes, ...
Motorola Releases Photon 4G Accessory Lineup
Mobile bloom News
Motorola released the Photon 4G Android handset exclusively for the 4G Sprint WiMAX mobilebroadband network in mid-2011, and it was the first Motorola smartphone on that network with a Tegra 2 chip that offered WiMAX, CDMA and GSM connectivity. ...
4G Considered an Ideal Feature by Most Smartphone Users [75% of Mobile Users ...
TFTS (blog)
According to a study, three quarters of mobile users think 4G is an important smartphone feature. By definition, current carrier standards like HSPA+ and LTE don't actually fall under the formal definition of 4G, and are considered pre-4G technologies. ...
How to Invest in 4G Networks and Still Sleep at Night
DailyFinance
LTE is pretty clearly the future in high-speed wireless networking. Verizon (NYS: VZ) and AT&T are already building their LTE networks and even current WiMax enthusiast Sprint Nextel (NYS: S) plans to join the LTE parade. Handsets using LTE technology ...
4G is in demand, but most consumers still don't understand it
By Phone Arena
I am not sure about what your saying about t-mobile or att but as far as I found out Verizon has the fastest actual speeds for LTE 4g. It's faster than tmobile where I am at. Att LTE probably is the same as Verizon's but there is no phones out yet. ...
PhoneArena - News
HTC EVO Design 4G hands-on | Android Central
By Joshua Munoz
Josh does a hands on with the HTC EVO Design 4G, on Sprint. ... Not quite big enough to be the original EVO 4G and not as bulky as the current EVO 3D, the Design 4G is the thinner, lighter sibling in the EVO line. And that's ok. The aluminum ...
Android Central - Android Forums,...
JURIST - Paper Chase: FCC unveils changes to broadband rules
By Michael Haggerson
The new program also makes mobile broadband "an independent universal service objective for the first time in history" and reforms intercarrier compensation to eliminate hidden costs in bills. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski called this a ...
Paper Chase
FCC Broadband Map Featured by CBS « geoMusings
By Bill Dollins
Michael Byrne of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave a really good talk at FOSS4G, telling the story of the FCC Broadband Map application, which is built on open-source geospatial tools. In addition to being open-source, ...
geoMusings
Samsung Galaxy S Wifi 5.0 Review
By Aaron Orquia
A few weeks ago, I opened the box of a new Samsung Galaxy S Wifi 5.0 media player. Samsung's Android-powered answer to the iPod touch, the MID took its time in getting to the US. However, it is finally here, I have had a chance to use the it ...
Pocketables
VelaTel to deploy 4G networks in China through JV - Today's Top ...
By 7886
US's VelaTel announced it would form a joint venture with a Chinese company to deploy fourth-generation (4G) service networks in the Asian country. ... The joint venture with China's Next Generation Special Network Communication Technology Co Ltd will use the TD-LTE technology to bring high-speed, low-cost wireless internet connections to both businesses and individuals currently without access to broadband. VelaTel said it was not as concerned about competing with China's ...
Service guide in China - Resources...
$4.5 Billion Annual Subsidies for Broadband Approved ...
By George Ou
A subsidy of this magnitude should bring a significant improvement in broadband access for rural America, which presently has weak access to broadband. Regardless of how one feels aboutbroadband subsidies (especially given the funding ...
SiliconANGLE
Oi focusing on broadband, mobile to offset fixed telephony downturn ...
By Pedro Ozores
Brazilian telecom operator Oi is focusing more on the broadband and mobile phone markets than on fixed-line telephony, in light of decreasing earnings in the latter segment, CFO and investor relations director Alex Zornig said in a conference ...
Business News Americas - Telecommunic...
Wi-Fi in hotels: Slowing down online | The Economist
A PIECE in the New York Times earlier in the week explained why Wi-Fi connectivity in hotels has been getting slower of late. It seems the runaway success of tablet computers has created an army of people who like nothing better to do than ...
Gulliver
Lawmakers push Jindal to appeal $80M broadband grant loss
By The Associated Press
Bobby Jindal's administration to appeal a federal government decision to rescind an $80 million grant to expand broadband Internet connections to rural and poor areas of Louisiana. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced it was ...
New Orleans CityBusiness
FCC approves plan to expand broadband AND wireless to rural ...
The FCC has approved new rules that signal a shift away from phones and toward broadbandInternet access. The rules include provisions for both wired ...
marketplace.publicradio.org/.../tech-report-fcc-approves-plan-...

Sprint, Clearwire May Help Drive LTE Convergence
PCWorld
Sprint and Clearwire currently share a WiMax network, with Clearwire as the operator and Sprint reselling services for its 4G phones and data devices. Both are moving on to LTE, the 4G technology with the most international acceptance, but they plan to ...

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