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Alice in rebanding land

Lewis Carroll could not have written the scenario playing out in the depths of the rabbit hole that is rebanding. With public safety playing Alice, the characters that have come to the tea party are as weird and wonderful as any that a fantasy writer could imagine.

Tough times for Moto, Sprint

Two of the biggest names in the U.S. wireless industry — Motorola and Sprint Nextel — last month saw their credit ratings downgraded to “junk” status by separate agencies

A black cloud over white spaces

On Nov. 14, 2008, the FCC released a Report and Order (R&O) that allows unlicensed broadband radio transmitters to operate on vacant television channels.

A tough task just got tougher

The release of the Land Mobile Communications Council coordination guidelines for narrowband 150 and 450 MHz radio systems hopefully will bring some additional certainty regarding spectrum availability

Why the rush?

There seems to be a lot of angst in the public-safety sector over the FCC’s decision not to address the 700 MHz D Block auction before the commission is reconstituted after the inauguration of Barack Obama. I wonder why.

Spectrum indecision

Almost a year after the 700 MHz D Block was supposed to be auctioned to create a shared wireless broadband network for public safety, the future of the spectrum apparently will remain in limbo until a new FCC is constituted

Waiting for the aftershock

In an era of instant news distribution, it is virtually impossible to avoid the topic of the rapid downward spiraling of the U.S. economy in what some experts are calling the nation’s worst recession since the Great Depression.

EWA, Sprint seek to accelerate access to 900 MHz band

Enterprises interested in accessing fallow spectrum in the 900 MHz band could get the opportunity soon, if the FCC adopts rules reflecting the sentiment of joint petition filed last week by Sprint Nextel and the Enterprise Wireless Alliance

PSST seeks stimulus money to make D Block plan viable

An official for the Public Safety Spectrum Trust (PSST) today released a letter asking President-elect Barack Obama to consider allocating $15 billion to the proposed public-private partnership to build a nationwide wireless broadband network

New York ‘still evaluating’ tests on statewide network

A governing body overseeing the build-out of New York’s statewide wireless network (SWN) yesterday took no action regarding the future of the massive project

Alice in rebanding land

Tough times for Moto, Sprint

A black cloud over white spaces

A tough task just got tougher

Why the rush?

Spectrum indecision

Waiting for the aftershock

EWA, Sprint seek to accelerate access to 900 MHz band

PSST seeks stimulus money to make D Block plan viable

New York ‘still evaluating’ tests on statewide network

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