Tag: Wireless
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Has the 700 MHz Auction Been a Failure?
Abstract Promoted as the most important FCC auction in decades, it appears that the 700 MHz auction has been a failure on several fronts. We were promised private operator-public safety partnerships (for the D Block) along with a new nationwide wireless broadband network (Frontline Wireless’ initiative), open access for any device and any application (Google’s…
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Wireless Telecom in Transition – Moto and Nortel may combine Wireless Infrastructure Units while Alcatel forms partnership with NEC for LTE
[editor’s note: To engage Alan Weissberger for consulting services, contact him at alan at viodi dot com] If implemented, the merger of Motorola’s and Nortel’s wireless infrastructure businesses would result in the creation of a $10 billion revenue company that would be better positioned to jostle for market share in a fast-consolidating industry. Both companies have…
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Frontline on the Backburner – Time for the Congress to Rethink Spectrum Sale!
By Ken Pyle, ken dot pyle at viodi dot com Over-the-air spectrum, just like the air we breathe, is a public good. That is, all of the citizens of the United States are co-owners in the this mostly invisible resource that is truly ubiquitous. Years ago, our Federal Government, the steward of our spectrum, decided…