Category: Wireless
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The First White Space Device
People in Wilmington, NC are lucky, as the FCC announces that their area will be the first to be able to use the newly, FCC-approved device from Koos Technical Services. This device will use the Spectrum Bridge white spaces database for frequency coordination. The FCC writes that they, “Will expand nationwide pending completion and activation…
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Deutsche Telekom (DT/ T-Labs) Briefing with Partner Companies: Jan 24, 2012 in Palo Alto, CA
Deutsche Telekom (DT) will brief our IEEE ComSocSCV group on their latest Silicon Valley activities January 24, 2012 in Palo Alto, CA. Louis Schreier, VP of /T-Labs Division will will provide an outline of DT’s current mission in the U.S. and describe several important activities they are engaged in. Three DT partner companies- Mozilla, Nicira…
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Engineering Our Wireless Future at the UC Berkeley Global Leadership Conference, November 18, 2011
Abstract With more than 5 billion users of mobile devices, the world has gone wireless in a big way. Wireless technologies are transforming communications, commerce, healthcare, energy use and other domains at an unprecedented rate. At this mini conference, two very high profile wireless industry leaders (Paul Jacobs and Arun Sarin) described the ubiquitous, reliable,…
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Sprint to use Clearwire’s TDD-LTE to augment its own LTE network
The squabbles, break ups and make ups between Sprint and Clearwire have become worthy of a prime time soap opera. Sprint has been reselling Clearwire’s mobile WiMAX network (CLEAR) and offering its own branded “4G” smart phones along with a Samsung tablet that works on CLEAR and Sprint’s 3G network. But earlier this month, Sprint announced it wouldn’t be supporting…
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Global Telcos come to Silicon Valley In Search of Innovation and Partnerships
Introduction: Global mobile app downloads will reach nearly 18 billion this year with sales of $15.1 billion, nearly triple last year’s revenues, according to Gartner Research. How much of that $15.1B went into the pocket of carriers (versus Apple and Google)? We would expect that number to be close to zero! Having missed the first…