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Verizon Wireless Plans to Offer 4G Capability Next Year

(PhysOrg.com) -- In today's world, we want our information to travel faster. This is especially true as smart phones take over and we become used to using smaller devices to accomplish more while we are away ...

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Free live TV is coming to your smartphone and tablet

Would you like to watch live network TV on your smartphone or stream a movie? The answer is probably yes to both.

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Govt IDs more airwaves for commercial wireless

(AP) -- The federal government wants to alleviate data congestion on smartphones and other mobile devices by asking the Defense Department, NASA and other agencies to switch to new locations on the airwaves or share their ...

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US Congress approves wireless spectrum auction

The US Congress approved legislation on Friday that would free up spectrum for next generation wireless networks to meet the surging growth of mobile devices.

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created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Microsoft advocates new WiFi-NC to make use of white spaces in spectrum

(PhysOrg.com) -- Four years ago, the FCC began allowing limited use of the so-called white spaces in the electromagnetic spectrum that is shared by all wireless devices (in the United States). The white spaces ...

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AT&T drops $39B T-Mobile bid; 'duopoly' averted (Update)

AT&T Inc. is hanging up on its $39 billion bid to buy smaller wireless provider T-Mobile USA, nearly four months after the U.S. government raised concerns that the deal would raise prices, reduce innovation ...

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TV channel squeeze proposed to pay for tax cuts

(AP) -- Call it the Great Channel Squeeze.

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Debt fight could bring more airwaves for broadband

(AP) -- The debt ceiling battle could produce an unlikely winner: smartphone users.

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created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wireless carriers grapple with shortage of wireless spectrum

Almost every wireless gadget on the planet, from the lock button on your car keys to the iPhone in your pocket to the Wi-Fi in your favorite coffee shop, runs over the electromagnetic spectrum.

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created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Deal to combine AT&T, T-Mobile raises questions

(AP) -- AT&T's surprise announcement that it plans to acquire T-Mobile USA will force federal regulators to confront a difficult antitrust question: Can American consumers get good wireless service at a fair ...

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FCC to update phone subsidy program for broadband

(AP) -- The federal government spends more than $4 billion a year, collected from phone bills, to subsidize phone service in rural and poor areas. Now, it's considering ways to give those places more for the money: high-speed ...

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