Category: Wireless

After escaping net neutrality probe, Verizon expands data cap exemptions

Just a few weeks after escaping a net neutrality investigation into data cap exemptions, Verizon has decided to let its FiOS mobile video stream on its wireless network without counting against data caps. Customers who have Verizon FiOS TV at home and a Verizon Wireless smartphone plan can watch TV outside their homes without using up the data allotments on limited mobile plans, the company announced today .

Us FCC to probe at&T 911 call outage

AT&T’s mobile subscribers in some U.S. states were not able to make 911 emergency calls late Wednesday, leading to complaints from police departments and emergency agencies in various parts of the country. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai wrote on Twitter that his agency was receiving reports of widespread AT&T 911 call outages and its public safety staff were investigating.

WhiteSpace Alliance Predicts United States will Rapidly Move Forward with TV White Space Deployments

The WhiteSpace Alliance , a global industry organization enabling sharing of underutilized spectrum, says that completion of the recent FCC spectrum incentive auction will make the United States a prime market for TV white space deployments. “The completion of the incentive auction will remove regulatory uncertainty and free up more than 80 MHz of spectrum for license-exempt wireless Internet access,” said Dr. Apurva N. Mody, Chairman of WhiteSpace Alliance.

Are We Breaking The Internet?

Recent outages from critical services across the net have created massive disruption in recent weeks: Whether it was Amazon’s S3 service failure, which took down thousands of sites, Cloudflare’s “Cloudbleed” security issue, which forced many sites to ask users to reset their passwords, or Google Wifi’s accidental reset, which wiped out customer’s internet profiles, the infrastructure behind the internet has looked substantially more unstable recently. The packetized technology that underlies most of the internet was created by Paul Baran as part of an effort to protect communications by moving from a centralized model of communication to a distributed one .

Harris Corp. announces new research into drones

Harris Corp officials held an event to announce the Melbourne company would be joining a group that will research low-altitude networks to make drone use safer. Harris Corp officials held an event to announce the Melbourne company would be joining a group that will research low-altitude networks to make drone use safer.

Netflix employees were personally affected by U.S. President Donald…

Netflix employees were personally affected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban people entering from seven Muslim countries, the company’s CEO said Tuesday. Reed Hastings has been a critic of the temporary travel ban, which Trump hopes to revive in a revised form this week, and told The Associated Press on Tuesday that some of his co-workers had gotten caught up in it.

Deutsche Telekom CEO Makes Case for Unified Approach to 5G

Deutsche Telekom AG Chief Executive Officer Tim Hoettges called on European telecommunications regulators to allow more industry consolidation, and asked authorities to ease the transition to a fifth generation of wireless services that would spur growth. Europe is “a quite difficult ecosystem” for M&A, Hoettges said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Barcelona, where he is attending Mobile World Congress this week.

GoPro Integrates App With Huawei’s New Phone in China Push

GoPro Inc. is integrating its mobile editing app into Huawei Technologies Co.’ s newest smartphones, in a marketing push to boost brand presence and sales in China amid sluggish demand in the U.S. The app, called Quik, will come preinstalled on Huawei P10 smartphones as the main editing option for consumers, GoPro announced Sunday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Verizon To Test 5G Service in 11 Cities

Between now and mid-year, Verizon expects to begin pilot tests of next-generation, 5G wireless services in 11 metropolitan regions across the U.S. Aimed at select customers in those regions, the tests will explore a variety of deployment scenarios. Compared to today’s 4G technology, the next generation of wireless communication promises far faster speeds with lower latency and many times more network capacity.

Access to airwaves made WBIN valuable in $68M sale NEW

Television broadcasting is all about visuals, but it turns out that the valuable part of WBIN-TV wasn’t anything that we could see. On Friday, Bill Binnie announced that he would be shutting down the state’s youngest television station because he had sold its broadcast spectrum – the right to send out its signals at certain wavelengths – to the Federal Communications Commission for $68 million, more than seven times the $9 million he paid for the station in 2011.

Trump’s FCC closes AT&T and Verizon zero-rating inquiry – CNET

There’s a new sheriff in town at the Federal Communications Commission, and he just gave AT&T and Verizon a big pass. The FCC said Friday it would end its inquiry into the companies’ so-called zero rating offers that allow customers to watch video from certain applications from their mobile devices without it counting against their monthly data caps.

FCC Chairman warns Republicans against net neutrality repeal – CNET

In his last speech as chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler defends his controversial open internet rules that prohibit broadband providers from favoring their own services at the expense of their competitors. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler testifies before a House subcommittee in March 2015 defending his agency’s controversial net neutrality rules.

FCC Chairman warns Republicans against net neutrality repeal – CNET

In his last speech as chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler defends his controversial open internet rules that prohibit broadband providers from favoring their own services at the expense of their competitors. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler testifies before a House subcommittee in March 2015 defending his agency’s controversial net neutrality rules.

T-Mobile to simplify rate plan

At a press event here Thursday during the CES electronics show, John Legere, CEO of the self-proclaimed “Uncarrier,” announced the company will simplify its rate plans and the bills it sends out to customers. It also plans to reward customers who are frugal in their data usage by reducing their next month’s bills.