Key questions for 2011
- How will the FCC deal with the inevitable avalanche of narrowbanding waivers?
- Will NIST test new noise-cancelling technologies to determine whether they solve the problems that digital radios are having in noisy environments?
- Will San Francisco Bay Area governmental entities risk the $70 million in funding that has been committed to the region's broadband network project by implementing a new vendor-selection process?
- What impact will next-generation satellites have on the wireless-communications sector?
- How prevalent will telemedicine become next year?
- At what point and to what degree will commercial carriers begin to push back because they believe it is unfair to be forced to compete with government-funded broadband initiatives?
- Will Congress or the FCC allow non-public-safety entities use public-safety spectrum in shared arrangements?
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