Links To Wireless News

Super Streams for Super Bowl XLVI

When the New York Giants and New England Patriots take the field for Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium (WikiMapia) in Indianapolis, the eyes of over 100 million people around the world will be upon them. Follow it live on NBC, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, Google News, Yahoo News, UStream [...]

Dish Clarifies LTE-Advanced Plan

Dish Network, in its filing with the FCC this week, has argued against the restrictions that AT&T Mobility wants to impose on Dish’s spectrum licenses, reports Fierce Wireless. Dish also clarified elements of its nationwide LTE Advanced plan. Dish wants to use 40 Mhz of spectrum in the 2.1 GHz MSS (satellite phone) band that [...]

White Space Show Down

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., urged the Internet community on Tuesday to rally to push Congress to free up more unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi and other new wireless technologies. “It’s going to take your voices and the voices of a whole bunch of folks similar to what happened a few weeks ago … to just rise [...]

India Cancels All 122 licenses in 2G “Auction”

India’s Supreme Court sent shockwaves through the country’s mobile sector earlier today by cancelling all 122 of the 2G licenses that were awarded under controversial circumstances in 2008. The markets reacted swiftly. Stocks of telecom companies whose licenses have been scrapped, like DB Realty, whose promoters are invested in Etisalat DB, Unitech and Videocon, tanked [...]

Facebook’s Mobile Stategy

In its IPO filing Facebook mentioned the word “mobile” 123 times, says GigOM. But in most cases Facebook didn’t use the word mobile in positive ways. Of Facebook’s 845 million monthly active users, 425 million accessed Facebook in December alone through a smart-or feature phone app or through its mobile-optimized website. In 2011, 85 percent [...]

Qualcomm Demos LTE to WCDMA Call

Qualcomm today announced a LTE to WCDMA call using one of its MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 chipsets, and a VoIP-over-LTE connection. Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) is a 3GPP specified feature that enables seamless switching between a 4G network and a 3G network. Up until this point, the main use of LTE has been for mobile data traffic. The [...]

Books: Time Limited?

This video compilation of thought leaders at Digital Book World has some interesting takes on eBooks and publishing. The model that the big six publisher, Random House, Hachette (Time Warner Books), Macmillan, Penguin, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster is seen by many as “time limited.” Mike Shatzkin says, “The big six is run by the [...]

Taking Siri for a Ride

Oregonian reporter Joseph Rose puts Apple’s Siri to the test when he takes his iPhone out for a drive to try hands-free texting. An iPhone ad on the Apple website shows a driver receiving and flawlessly sending a handsfree text with Siri. Rose was not so lucky. He also mentions a new Canadian study showing [...]

Universal Service Reform Passed

The Federal Communications Commission today voted to approve a comprehensive overhaul of Lifeline service, which helps tens of millions of low-income Americans afford basic phone service. The FCC also voted to improve data collection and a database to make it easier to verify a consumer’s eligibility and ensure one home doesn’t receive multiple reimbursements for [...]

Seybold: Democracy Now!

Andrew Seybold, in a think piece posted on Fierce Wireless says it’s doubtful that the FCC could meet its five-year goal of freeing up 300 MHz of spectrum. “It takes months to prepare for such an auction, then it takes a few years to relocate those already on the spectrum, first finding a place to [...]