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Despite a last ditch effort by the National Association of Broadcasters, the politicians they pay to love them and Dolly Parton, it appears that the November 4 vote on white space broadband will not only move forward, it may pass overwhelmingly. FCC Commissioner Robert “what broadband problem?” McDowell tells Reuters he thinks there’s a good [...]

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If you cover the tech industry, your inbox has probably been assaulted over the last week with press releases from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), who are unleashing the power of their lobbying apparatus upon Washington and the press in the hopes of derailing a November 4 vote on White Space broadband. White Space [...]

Femtocells essentially create a micro cell tower in your home that improves wireless coverage and allows you to make calls over your broadband connection. It’s expected that most major incumbents, including cable operators like Comcast, should begin deploying the technology next year. “We are looking at femtocell technology and will soon be performing user tests,” [...]

Gates, Microsoft lobby FCC for unlicensed white spaces use nytimes.com Free college network sunk by pirates theinquirer.net Virgin Media Troubled by Poor Upstream Broadband Performance ispreview.co.uk Anti-white-space lobby enlists God, Dolly Parton theregister.co.uk Vint Cerf designing new protocols for a strong space-communication network modeled on the Internet here on Earth theinquirer.net Verizon profit rises 31% [...]

From Australia to the United States, the entertainment industry is waging a public relations and lobbying war in an effort to force ISPs to become piracy nannies, forever tasked with scanning their networks for traders of bootleg 80′s Knight Rider episodes, then terminating the accounts of Hasselhoff-loving offenders everywhere. Last year we noted that a [...]