More Broadband News
- 28 September 2012
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News: FCC moves forward on incentive spectrum auctions
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission took the first step Friday toward groundbreaking auctions of television spectrum to mobile carriers faced with skyrocketing bandwidth demands from their customers.
- 26 September 2012
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News: FCC to vote on proposal to use old NextWave spectrum
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a proposal that would allow AT&T to offer mobile broadband service on 20MHz of spectrum it purchased in August along with spectrum holding company NextWave Wireless.
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News: WHSmith to offer free Wi-Fi
WHSmith has announced it will offer customers free Wi-Fi in its stores.
- 25 September 2012
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News: FCC Chief Says Broadband Key to Economic Success, Defends Net Neutrality
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski offers his views on the role of government in nurturing the broadband ecosystem, what he sees as a critical ingredient to economic success. He also defends net neutrality and government's role in preserving and promoting free markets.
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News: FCC chairman: Agency needs to police broadband competition
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission needs to be a "cop on the beat" to ensure mobile and broadband competition across the country, the agency's chairman said Tuesday.
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News: Tesco Mobile announces free broadband deal
Tesco Mobile has revealed that its customers can get free broadband for a year.
- 21 September 2012
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News: Lawmakers: FCC may have rushed LightSquared decision
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission rushed to judgment in giving permission in early 2011 for startup LightSquared to offer LTE service in a band of wireless spectrum next to a band used by GPS devices, several U.S. lawmakers said Friday.
- 20 September 2012
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News: YouView coming to BT broadband customers in October
BT has announced it will give new customers a free YouView set-top box when they sign up for Infinity broadband, the firm's fast fibre-optic network
- 19 September 2012
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News: Amazon launches Cloud Player in the UK
Amazon has launched it Cloud Player in the UK allowing users to store and access music in the cloud.
- 18 September 2012
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News: Getting the most out of broadband to back up MPLS
The problem with using broadband to back up branch office MPLS links is 1) you spend all that money on the pipes and most of the time they simply lie fallow, and 2) when MPLS does go down the failover process often takes so long it kills active sessions.
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News: Groups to file net neutrality complaint against AT&T
Three advocacy groups plan to file a formal complaint against AT&T, alleging the carrier is violating the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules for blocking a video-conferencing application on Apple's iPhones and iPads.
- 17 September 2012
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News: FCC rules that cable operators can buy local phone carriers
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has waived restrictions that prevented cable operators from acquiring local telephone carriers, saying those mergers could lead to stronger competition to large telecom carriers for business customers.
- 13 September 2012
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News: iPhone 5 won't support O2 or Vodafone 4G networks
Apple has announced its 4G capable iPhone 5 but the smartphone won't run on O2 or Vodafone's 4G networks.
- 11 September 2012
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News: Samsung mulls lawsuit against Apple over LTE in next iPhone, report says
Samsung is exploring a potential lawsuit against Apple over the release of the next iPhone for infringing on Samsung's LTE wireless patents, according to unnamed industry sources quoted by a Korean newspaper.
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News: Everything Everywhere launches 4G in UK with new brand
Everything Everywhere has switched on 4G mobile broadband services in the UK under its new brand EE.
- 10 September 2012
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News: EarthLink plans fixed and mobile wireless services over Clearwire's 4G networks
EarthLink will resell wireless broadband on Clearwire's WiMax network starting early next year and later will launch a service based on that company's planned LTE network.
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News: Data retention proposal 'raises more questions than it answers,' says IIA executive
The Internet Industry Association has asked for more information on the government’s proposal to require retention of Internet user data for two years, said IIA CEO Peter Lee. Lee, who became the IIA’s CEO in July, said other current areas of focus include updating the iCode and reforming copyright laws.
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News: Patriots fans to be first to use new Wi-Fi at season opener
When nearly 69,000 fans crowd into Gillette Stadium for the New England Patriots NFL season opener on Sept. 16, a new multimillion-dollar, high-density, bowlwide Wi-Fi network will be fired up for its first public use.
- 07 September 2012
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News: Broadband competitors seek to level playing field with NBN
The NBN should heat up telco competition in a broadband market that has been dominated by Telstra, said Optus, Vodafone and iiNet officials on a panel at the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) conference in Sydney. However, they said the national network won’t resolve all inequities in the telco industry.
- 06 September 2012
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News: New international cable to New Zealand proposed
A new Pacific submarine fibre optic cable is being proposed by a company called Hawaiki Submarine Cable that would link New Zealand and Australia with several Pacific islands by the end of 2014.
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