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BPL Powers Down

2008-05-05 09:59:43 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...FCC and upcoming EC decisions on BPL either released or about to happen, BPL seemed about to come into its own. I wrote a positive piece for The Economist based in large part on an enormous deployment that was contracted and underway in Texas, and a contract that had just been signed in France. These two events seemed like they would catalyze...
 
Tags: bpl, bpl equipment, bpl service, catalyze bpl, fcc, favorable fcc, oncor, network deployment, network
 
 
 
 
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Sprint's Public Safety Deal for Nextel Comes Home to Roost

2008-05-05 14:25:10 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...FCC and the courts are saying that a 26-June-2008 deadline for vacating its 800 MHz holdings in favor of public safety groups would hold even if the new users weren't on the band. The delays for new users getting on the band are reportedly Sprint's, given that it had the responsibility for this migration Nextel had splintered holdings in the...
 
Tags: public safety deal, public safety, sprint, cost sprint billions, cost, nextel, reportedly sprint, public safety migration, delay sprint
 
 
 
 
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Latest 802.11 Standard Boosts Wi-Fi Power in New Band

2008-06-25 14:01:44 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...FCC announced the arrangement Several firms offer base station and customer premises equipment for this band now, so close to the 3.5 GHz band more commonly exclusively licensed in Europe and elsewhere. WiMax equipment is available because the 3.65 GHz band can be used with WiMax without any modifications to that protocol, although limited to...
 
Tags: band, power, wi-fi, ghz band, ghz, equipment, wimax equipment, metro-scale wi-fi firm, power output
 
 
 
 
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Security Policy Considerations for the Junk FAX Prevention Act

2007-12-27 08:56:05 by Editor in Information Security Policy Whitepapers
 
New FCC rules for the Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005 have changed the way organizations must handle outbound customer communications via FAX technology. In this article we look at the main provisions of the recent ruling and suggest some audits of your information security policies that may help reduce the risk of violating the new FAX...
 
Tags: information security policies, fax requirements, fcc rules, main provisions, fax technology, audits, organizations, article, recent
 
 
 
 
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U.S. watchdog groups query part of wireless auction

2008-03-20 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Consumer groups are asking the FCC to investigate why a major auction of airwaves failed to draw enough bids to kick-start plans for a new private wireless network to be shared with public safety agencies
 
Tags: public safety agencies, kick-start plans, major auction, wireless network, consumer, draw, fcc, airwaves, bids
 
 
 
 
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Verizon, AT&T big winners in airwave auction

2008-03-20 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The FCC announced that Verizon Wireless has one the coveted C-block of wireless spectrum in the 700MHz range in the recently-completed wireless auction
 
Tags: 700mhz range, verizon wireless, wireless auction, wireless spectrum, c-block, fcc
 
 
 
 
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700 MHz Winners Talk: Google, AT&T, Verizon

2008-04-04 11:45:52 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...FCC over the bidding and results of the 700 MHz spectrum auction were lifted yesterday, and everyone is jabbering. Verizon and AT&T have announced they'll build LTE (Long Term Evolution) cell data networks, a GSM standard, in the 700 MHz band. AT&T says their network will come online starting in 2012; Verizon, 2010 Google posted on their own...
 
Tags: verizon, mhz spectrum auction, mhz spectrum, verizon wireless, google, auction, ensure verizon lives, spectrum, att
 
 
 
 
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Sperren Sie Endlich Ihren Kopf Auf

2008-04-01 14:15:59 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...FCC, and coded into your devices' SSIDs. Microwave ovens won't be exempt; a $10 per month "potential interference fee" will be collected. Think this is too hard to regulate? Remember that TV detector vans drive around Britain fining people who lack a TV license Exploding head: An English schoolteacher's head exploded due to electromagnetic...
 
Tags: wi-fi spectrum, wi-fi, potential interference fee, spectrum, license code, electromagnetic radiation, head, microwave ovens, english schoolteacher
 
 
 
 
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The Federal government is a leader in NAC adoption

2008-04-09 10:53:43 by HASH0x8745d18 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...FCC, Transportation, USDA or any number of other federal agencies who have been looking at and using NAC for years already and than try to tell me that the Feds are lagging on NAC adoption. Go ask Cisco how much NAC they have sold into the federal space I wish Mr Jackson would do a little more digging besides talking to vendors with little or...
 
Tags: nac, nac adoption, adoption, nac deployments, real nac presence, federal government, nac standards, federal space, federal space screams
 
 
 
 
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FCC should reduce or eliminate public safety spectrum license fees

2008-04-22 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Chief Harlin McEwen, chairman of Public Safety Spectrum Trust, said today that the Federal Communications Commission should consider drastically reducing or even eliminating the reserve price it has placed on the public safety spectrum on the 700MHz band
 
Tags: public safety spectrum, federal communications commission, chief harlin, 700mhz band, reserve price, chairman