The FCC has asked for comments on Globalstar's proposal to expand the Ancillary Terrestrial Component of its MSS operation to provide a low power terrestrial broadband network.… Continue Reading
In the White Space Database Administrator Derby, Comsearch has made it out of the starting blocks.… Continue Reading
Without some release valve for cases at the margins, a regulatory system cannot truly serve the public interest.… Continue Reading
The compliance engineers don't want piles of rocks and wood chips on their clean floors - and neither, we suspect, do the engineers at the FCC's own test facility.… Continue Reading
Two well-placed members of Congress are thinking about updating the Communications Act. They'd like to hear from you . . . real soon.… Continue Reading
With the Federal Register notice now in print, the last of the FCC's Medical Body Area Network rules have taken effect.… Continue Reading
If you have competitors, chances are they double as FCC agents who watch your company's every move.… Continue Reading
The central idea is to establish priorities among user groups that a "spectrum access system" enforces automatically in real time.… Continue Reading
Key Bridge Global LLC has made it to the finish line.… Continue Reading
LS telcom has started the last lap in its effort to become the next white space database administrator approved by the Commission.… Continue Reading
Now that the FCC has released a public notice that considerably revises and expands its original proposals, the workshop should take on added interest for those interested in the band.… Continue Reading
Ordinarily we would summarize the public notice. Not this time. It runs to 18 single-spaced pages and is dense with information; an accurate summary would be almost as long as the document itself.… Continue Reading
In seeking to accelerate the start of the regulatory process, the IEEE - if successful - might actually delay its conclusion.… Continue Reading
The FCC has announced topics and participants for its November 8 workshop on unlicensed spectrum.… Continue Reading
OK, readers, how about a big "welcome aboard" to the two newest arrivals on the Eighth Floor?… Continue Reading
When we posted Mitchell Lazarus's item concerning the need for the FCC last week, we anticipated push-back. And sure enough, our colleague Jon Markman has stepped up.… Continue Reading
Most of the new deadlines will give the people who deal with the FCC reasonable time to get caught up.… Continue Reading
The government shutdown was applauded by some who believe that small government is better, and so, by extension, that no government at all must be better still. That got us thinking.… Continue Reading
Those interested in the FCC's novel, on-the-fly spectrum management system proposed for the 3.5 GHz band may be interested in this FCC workshop.… Continue Reading
The Commission has posted its plans for an "orderly" shutdown of operations in the event the government closes tonight because of the budget impasse.… Continue Reading
The huge power increase, adopted last month, for certain unlicensed 57-64 GHz transmitters is now set to take effect in late October.… Continue Reading
The FCC answers at last a question posed by the first-century poet Juvenal.… Continue Reading
One of the problems of developing technology is that it, um, develops, which means that it can be a constant effort to keep up with it, even if you're the one doing the developing.… Continue Reading
At 2008 auction prices for the 700 MHz band, the 57-64 GHz band would go for 2.6 quadrillion dollars - about 30 times the total economy of the world.… Continue Reading
