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Article | 14/07/2011 Republican spectrum plan would kill net neutrality
A proposal by U.S. House of Representatives Republicans to free up spectrum for mobile broadband use would remove net neutrality rules on new spectrum...
Article | 14/07/2011 Senate report: Phone bill cramming costs billions
Third-party charges on U.S. consumer and business telephone bills, most of them unauthorized by the customer, amount to US $2 billion a year, accordin...
Article | 13/07/2011 FCC proposes rules to combat phone cramming
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed new rules designed to make it more difficult for telephone carriers and other companies to ins...
Article | 7/07/2011 US official: Gov't spectrum holdings are limited
The U.S. government doesn't have a huge swath of underused wireless spectrum to auction to mobile carriers, although agencies are working to identify ...
Article | 6/07/2011 GPS group slams LightSquared's new plan
A group of GPS vendors and users has challenged mobile startup LightSquared's credibility in a response to the company's new plan for a hybrid satelli...
Article | 1/07/2011 LightSquared to start building LTE network
LightSquared plans to start building its terrestrial wireless network soon, despite a regulatory approval process that has sparked vehement opposition...
Article | 1/07/2011 FCC moves toward implementing net neutrality rules
Remember those net neutrality rules the U.S. Federal Communications Commission passed back in December? The agency is taking steps toward finally impl...
Article | 1/07/2011 LightSquared files GPS report and new plan
LightSquared filed a long-awaited report on possible GPS interference by its planned cellular network to the FCC on Thursday, along with a formal prop...
Article | 30/06/2011 LightSquared faces more turbulence over GPS
There's little disagreement about what a test report expected this week will say about LightSquared's proposed LTE network: It knocks out GPS on many ...
Article | 29/06/2011 Expert: Gov't should approve T-Mobile sale with conditions
Instead of rejecting AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, U.S. regulators should approve the deal with conditions that require AT&T to...
Article | 23/06/2011 FCC: Rural areas still lag in broadband speeds
More than 28 percent of the rural population in the U.S. lack access to midrange 3Mbps broadband service, according to a new report from two U.S. agen...
Article | 23/06/2011 New bill would require mobile carriers to detail 4G speeds
New legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives would require mobile carriers to detail their "guaranteed minimum" data speeds and their network ...
Article | 22/06/2011 New LightSquared plan faces attack, uncertainty
The coast is not yet clear for LightSquared's hybrid satellite-LTE network despite the company's announcement on Monday that it has found a solution t...
Article | 22/06/2011 Tech firm's co-owner sentenced for E-Rate fraud
The former co-owner of Illinois networking vendor Global Networking Technologies was sentenced Tuesday to serve one year and one day in prison for his...
Article | 21/06/2011 FCC to attack phone cramming charges
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will consider new rules to help telephone service customers decipher their phone bills and guard against un...