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August 11, 2011
Volume 5, Issue 17
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Introducing Advanced Technologies at 800 MHz
In comments filed on August 1st, EWA agreed with Sprint Nextel's premise that the FCC had intended all along that it would permit the deployment of broadband technologies on what now is classified as ESMR spectrum. MORE |
Spectrum Deals Reached with Canada, Mexico
Presumably accepting that the U.S. State Department has more pressing matters with which to deal, the FCC announced on August 1 that it had reached an unofficial arrangement with Industry Canada for sharing 800 MHz spectrum along the US-Canadian border. MORE |
650 MHz for Microwave Services?
The FCC has proposed removing regulatory barriers and freeing up to 650 MHz of spectrum for Part 101 Fixed Service (FS) licensees, primarily for microwave services that facilitate wireless backhaul and other point-to-point and point-to-multipoint communications. MORE |
NATIONAL BROADBAND CORNER |
Job "Onshoring" Forecast with Broadband Growth
The launch of "jobs4america," a coalition of call center businesses committed to creating 100,000 new jobs in America, was announced by FCC Chairman Genachowski along with several business leaders. MORE |
What the Heck, Repurpose It All!
In the "are you kidding" category, a "group" calling itself the "Mobile Broadband Coalition," has suggested that the FCC should not only permit Sprint to deploy CDMA technology in the 800 MHz ESMR band, but that the agency should also repurpose "the remaining 22 MHz within the Private Land Mobile Radio Band so that an additional 36 MHz would be made available now to provide additional spectrum capacity to meet the rapidly growing demand for high bandwidth intensive mobile data and video." MORE |
Interference with Doppler Radar
Sling Broadband, LLC (Sling), operator of Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure ("U-NII") transmission systems in Deerfield Beach, Florida, was found liable for interfering with the FAA's Terminal Doppler Weather Radar located at the Fort Lauderdale International Airport, and for operating on frequencies in the 5.35-5.46 MHz band for which the Part 15 Rules did not apply and for which Sling did not hold any licenses. MORE |
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-- Gary Hamel, "Leading the Revolution"
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