AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Signed An Unprecedented Deal To Make Smartphones Work Better (T, VZ, DT)

www.businessinsider.com Julie Bort 111 days ago

Ever been in a crowded place and you can't get service on your phone to make a call? Sometimes there are too many phones on your service provider's network. Smartphones have made the situation worse, because watching videos and chatting on FaceTime hogs the network. Three carriers just signed an unprecedented deal to try and solve that problem. For the first time AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have agreed to experiment with sharing network space with each other and the federal government. In the past, the government has auctioned off network space, known in geek speak as wireless spectrum. Eac... Read similar

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U.K. 4G/LTE Spectrum Bidding Gets Underway, Networks Expected To Launch By Late Spring/Summer

techcrunch.com Natasha Lomas 120 days ago

It's taken a long time for the U.K. telecoms regulator to be in a position to fire the starting gun on the auction for 4G-suitable spectrum but bidding to acquire the up to 250 MHz of additional mobile spectrum in the 800Mhz and 2.6GHz frequencies has now got underway. The total reserve price for the spectrum has been set at £1.36 billion.Read similar

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Cool Job Opening: White House Presidential Innovation Fellows

techcrunch.com Gregory Ferenstein 107 days ago

creative technological solutions

If you're lost in the recession or are looking for a job with more social impact, one of the coolest jobs in tech has opened up a second round of hiring: the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows. First launched at TechCrunch's own Disrupt NYC conference, Fellows work to find creative technological solutions to ongoing federal problems, from theft in foreign aid money transfers to making government contracts more small business-friendly.Read similar

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EFF report knocks Verizon, praises Twitter for protecting user data

www.engadget.com Sarah Silbert 22 days ago

electronic frontier foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released its annual "Who Has Your Back?" report, ranking 18 companies by how well they protect user information from government eyes. Twitter and Sonic.net get high scores from the EFF, as they meet all six of the organization's privacy guidelines, which include requiring a warrant for sharing content and telling users about government data requests. On the other end of the spectrum are MySpace and Verizon, both of which score zero out of six stars. Meanwhile, Apple and AT&T get one gold star each, and Google, Dropbox and LinkedIn are tied for second ... Read similar

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Internet Explorer zero-day exploit targets nuclear weapons researchers

arstechnica.com Dan Goodin 20 days ago

"Watering hole" attack targets workers browsing federal government website.Read similar

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FCC proposal hopes to grow WiFi spectrum by 35 percent, reduce hotspot congestion

www.engadget.com Sean Buckley 92 days ago

Sick of overloaded public WiFi? So is the FCC. Back at CES FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said we were heading for a WiFi "traffic jam," and promised to work with Government agencies to score public networks a little extra spectrum. In an effort to make good on the pledge, the FCC has now proposed a 195 megahertz expansion of the 5GHz band, giving unlicensed wireless devices (that would be your tablets, laptops, phones etc) a little bandwidth to share. The move would give devices a wider channel, which should translate to faster connection speeds. It isn't all just for the sake of your loca... Read similar

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Wireless Carriers Oppose Ottawa’s Desire to Regulate Spectrum License Transfers

www.iphoneincanada.ca Gary Ng 49 days ago

Earlier in March, the Minister of Industry Christian Paradis announced plans by Ottawa to further increase wireless competition to help Canadians gain better prices and services. Part of this plan was a declaration by the Federal Government to “promote at least four wireless providers in every region of the country.” Other plans included reviewing the...Wireless Carriers Oppose Ottawa’s Desire to Regulate Spectrum License Transfers is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource Read similar

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Mobile Miscellany: week of January 28th, 2013

www.engadget.com Zachary Lutz 110 days ago

If you didn't get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week brought a resolution to HTC's kerfuffle with the custom ROM community, along with a handful of special edition Samsung smartphones and new efforts toward spectrum sharing with the US government. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore the "best of the rest" for this week of January 28th, 2013.Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, MobileCommentsRead similar

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Google to monitor unused white space across the US, take us one step closer to spectrum sharing

www.engadget.com Sharif Sakr 80 days ago

One of the biggest hold-ups in the global deployment of LTE and long-range WiFi is a lack of available spectrum. Even when a particular frequency is free and usable for mobile broadband, it's often officially reserved for some other purpose. Google's charitable wing, Google.org, has long claimed that as much as 6 MHz of white space kept aside for TV channels in the US is actually untapped, and now it's going to get a chance to prove the point. The FCC has just granted it a 45-day window in which to run a trial public database (linked below) to keep track of exactly which bits of spectrum are... Read similar

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CISPA Passes Committee, Advances to House Vote

feeds.mashable.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 42 days ago

house intelligence committee

In a closed-door session, the House Intelligence Committee approved the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as (CISPA, by an 18-2 vote. The bill is now headed to the House floor for a vote next week.The committee met on Wednesday to discuss amendments to the bill, which is designed to enhance America's defenses against cyber threats by allowing more information on online attacks to be shared between the private sector and the government. Detractors of the bill, however, fear that to enhance security, the bill will sacrifice privacy, allowing companies to... Read similar

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FCC will crack open unlicensed spectrum to speed up wireless Internet

www.slashgear.com Brittany Hillen 134 days ago

internet traffic jam

federal communications commission

unlicensed spectrum

wireless internet

starbucks

The FCC has unveiled its plan to open an unlicensed spectrum that it says will relieve a wireless internet traffic jam. The announcement came via the Federal Communications Commission’s Chairman Julius Genachowski at CES earlier today. Reportedly, this move will not only make things faster at your local Starbucks, library, and anywhere else you’ll find Read The Full StoryRead similar

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VPN for the rest of us: Interview with WiTopia

www.tuaw.com Erica Sadun 171 days ago

government censorship

VPN, aka Virtual Private Network, is a technology that lets you securely share data across public networks. For the most part, when I think VPN, I typically imagine work-related corporate or federal government accounts, or people accessing the net in countries with excessive government surveillance. But there's a lot more that VPN can do. For example, it's an essential technology for sports fans who must shift the geographic location of their IP addresses so they can watch blacked-out sports from their broadcast region. It's also popular with travelers and coffee-shop-based tech workers who r... Read similar

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Canadian government sets November 19th as date for 700MHz auction

www.engadget.com Donald Melanson 77 days ago

Well, it's not the first half of 2013 as originally promised, but the Canadian government has now set a specific date for the country's first 700MHz spectrum auction: November 19th of this year. Alongside that bit of news, Industry Minister Christian Paradis also detailed a set of rules that he says will help provide consumers with "more choices and more access at better prices." That includes what the government describes as extended and expanded requirements for carriers to allow roaming on their networks, as well as a more general goal to have at least four competitors in each region of t... Read similar

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US and Canada reach border spectrum sharing deals for broadband

www.engadget.com Jon Fingas 9 days ago

national film board

film board of canada

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national film board of canada

mesh networks

Wireless use along the US-Canada border can be problematic: when there isn't direct interference, there's sometimes a fight over which devices get dibs on given frequencies. Don't worry that the countries will rekindle their old disputes, though -- instead, they've just struck interim deals to share more of their spectrum. Along with harmonizing 700MHz public safety networks, the pacts address AWS (1,700MHz and 2,100MHz), PCS (1,900MHz), 3.7GHz wireless broadband, mesh networks and even WiFi hotspots. When possible, both sides will use contention protocols to automatically resolve any conflict... Read similar

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SaskTel Says Wireless Licence Auction Rules Are Unfair

www.iphoneincanada.ca Gary Ng 35 days ago

This November, Ottawa is set to hold wireless spectrum licenses for the coveted 700 MHz band, which can cover larger distances, penetrate buildings and also handle the popularity of data usage better. The Federal Government has said this auction would benefit rural communities and provide better mobile service thanks to this new band. However, provincially...SaskTel Says Wireless Licence Auction Rules Are Unfair is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource Read similar

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FCC Announces Plan To Help Conference Wi-Fi Actually Work

techcrunch.com Gregory Ferenstein 134 days ago

fcc chairman

wireless spectrum

international consumer electronics

consumer electronics show

conference internet

The government wants to help ensure that conference Internet Wi-Fi actually works. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced a new plan to open up a portion of the wireless spectrum for faster and more reliable Wi-Fi devices. Specifically, the FCC will work to open up the unlicensed slice of 5 Mhz spectrum to make way for gigabit Internet devices, "to relieve Wi-Fi congestion at conferences, at airports, and in people's homes," said Genachowski on stage at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).Read similar

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FCC Wifi expansion sees slight Auto Industry hold-up

www.slashgear.com Chris Burns 99 days ago

federal communications commission

This week the FCC’s proposal for opening up a new large bit of spectrum in the USA reserved for wifi internet having some car trouble. The auto industry – via the Transportation Society of America (ITSA) has sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission asking them to to heed their warning. Their warning, in Read The Full StoryRead similar

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TELUS Says Its Spectrum Efficiency Outshines Bell, Rogers [CHART]

www.iphoneincanada.ca Gary Ng 78 days ago

With the Federal Government set to launch its rules for the 700MHz wireless spectrum auctions, TELUS Senior Vice President of Federal Government and Regulatory Affairs, Ted Woodhead explains the company eagerly is anticipating these rules so it can continue to expand their wireless network. Essentially, TELUS notes even with their smaller spectrum holdings the company has...TELUS Says Its Spectrum Efficiency Outshines Bell, Rogers [CHART] is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource Read similar

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Apple, others urge Congress to make more radio spectrum available

www.tuaw.com Steven Sande 162 days ago

radio frequency spectrum

federal spectrum

top lawmakers

alcatel lucent

unofficial apple weblog

A number of technology companies sent a missive to top lawmakers in Washington, DC yesterday, urging that they authorize freeing up additional radio frequency spectrum for mobile devices. The letter was signed by Apple, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia, Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, Cicso, Ericsson, and Research In Motion. The companies feel that the feds could auction off some of the spectrum that's currently used by government agencies. By doing so, the companies would gain valuable spectrum for mobile data and the U.S. government would gain some much-needed revenue in return. The companies noted in thei... Read similar

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FCC Approves T-Mobile Merger With MetroPCS

feeds.mashable.com Seth Fiegerman 72 days ago

federal communications commission

T-Mobile and MetroPCS received the U.S. government's nod of approval to proceed with their merger Tuesday.Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski said in a statement that it is "in the public interest" for the deal between the two carriers to be "allowed and enforced so long as third parties are not harmed." FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel added in a statement that the deal would increase competition in the wireless market by creating a "stronger fourth national wireless carrier" in addition to AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint. "By allowing these two market disr... Read similar

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