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FierceWiFi February 8, 2006
- Bush's budget plan calls for taxing spectrum licenses
- IBM's millimeter wave frequency breakthrough
- 802.11n modifications to allow speed of 600 Mbps
- , Skype invest $21M in FON
- 2007 federal budget: Communications highlights
- SPOTLIGHT: Another bubble bursting?
- ALSO NOTED: Nokia launches WLAN-capable 9300i smartphone in India; Muni-WiFi for Madison, WI?; and much more...
Bush's budget plan calls for taxing spectrum licenses
The Bush administration has submitted a proposal to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asking the regulatory body to consider imposing fees on unauctioned spectrum licenses which would yield about $3.6 billion during the next 10 years. Industry analysts initially saw this as an effort to target newer broadband and WiFi services, but a closer analysis shows that there are no plans to tax WiFi. The administration on Monday submitted to Congress its 2007 budget proposal, and the …
IBM's millimeter wave frequency breakthrough
IBM says it has achieved a breakthrough in wireless technology which could lead to a new generation of wireless electronic devices capable of transmitting and receiving at speeds 10 times faster than today's advanced WiFi networks (IBM referred to speeds of up to 630 Mbps). Based on a silicon germanium compound, the chip set, conforming to the 802.15.3c specification, sends and receives information in a portion of the radio spectrum which is currently unlicensed and can carry a much …
802.11n modifications to allow speed of 600 Mbps
The task group responsible for developing the IEEE 802.11n project has voted to accept a joint proposal to amend the IEEE 802.11 WLAN standard by adding specifications for new technologies which will raise WLAN connection speeds to as much as 600 Mbps. The task group working on this amendment, IEEE P802.11n (Wireless LAN MAC and PHY Specifications: Enhancements for Higher Throughput) voted unanimously to confirm the joint proposal as a baseline. The project to develop IEEE 802.11n began …
, Skype invest $21M in FON
Madrid-based start-up FON has big plans: It wants to build a global WiFi community which would allow members to share WiFi hotspots so they can access the Internet while traveling. Some big names have given it big money: Skype, and others have invested $21 million in the company. FON will enable its users to synchronize their home WiFi hotspots so that, if they have paid for a broadband connection at home, they will have instant access to all the other hotspots on the FON network. …
2007 federal budget: Communications highlights
The sale of U.S. wireless communications licenses will raise about $25 billion between 2007 and 2009, $7.8 billion more than last year's estimate, according to the 2007 budget submitted to Congress Monday. Here are some of the communication highlights from the proposed 2007 budget:
- The FCC will start selling 90 MHz of wireless airwaves on June 29, an auction which could raise as much as $15 billion.
- The auctioned airwaves will …
SPOTLIGHT: Another bubble bursting?
TODAY'S SPOTLIGH... Another bubble bursting?
It it possible that geeks are falling out of love with PDAs? The numbers do not lie: Despite a seasonal boost over Christmas, global shipments of PDAs decreased by 18.2 percent year-over-year in the last quarter of 2005. Shipments of handheld devices reached 7.5 million in 2005, a 16.7 percent decrease from the 9.1 million units shipped in 2004. Report
ALSO NOTED: Nokia launches WLAN-capable 9300i smartphone in India; Muni-WiFi for Madison, WI?; and much more...
> Nokia has launched the WLAN-capable Nokia 9300i smartphone in India. Release
> WeRoam has agreed to extend AT&T's WiFi roaming capabilities, initially by more than 5,000 new WiFi locations, with up to another 5,000 additional new locations to become available during first quarter 2006. …