Tag: spectrum
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved allocating a larger consolidated block of spectrum for use by motor vehicle and aircraft radar systems to help avoid crashes. The FCC first approved 1 GHz of spectrum in 1995 for motor vehicles to use radar that allowed for the introduction of collision avoidance […]
News highlights for 24 April Will.i.am teams with Atom, the app based bank Atom is the latest foray into digital technology for Will.i.am, the rapper-turned-entrepreneur who has launched a smartwatch with Deutsche Telekom and partnered with tech giants Apple and Intel. Read more… Interpol finds 9,000 servers infected, in Asia alone SINGAPORE (Reuters) – An […]
In last year’s TelecomAsia Visions report, I highlighted falling revenues and net neutrality as being major issues CSPs would face in the year ahead. But neither became the big issue I anticipated. The telecoms industry has an uncanny ability to weather storms, and even if voice revenues are down, overall revenues appear to be holding – with most […]
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States wants a global deal to reallocate parts of the radio spectrum for the next “5G” generation of mobile devices, a boom in civilian drones and a worldwide flight tracking system, senior U.S. officials said on Thursday. Tom Wheeler, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, told a news conference […]
An ongoing mystery is close to being solved. For as long as residents of a small island just off mainland Europe can remember, calls have mysteriously dropped, despite high fees. Internet sessions have been frozen, emails stop, half sent and people have inexplicably hurled devices at walls. Inhabitants of the UK have long believed that there […]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian Supreme Court has allowed the government to conclude the auction of telecom airwaves and collect initial payments from operators, multiple television channels reported on Thursday. The country’s top court had last month allowed the government to proceed with the auction, which began on March 4, but had said no final […]
DISH Founder and Chairman Charlie Ergen should be fuming at the Feds right about now. His ideas were in the right place – a little bit of laissez faire common sense from regulators and his acquisition of a dying Blockbuster turns into healthy competition in the OTT video market. Instead, regulators denied DISH’s waiver to […]
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