Tag: FCC
4G Wireless Phones will Interfere with GPS Getting You Lost
Within the next few years one major 4G base station maker, LightSquared, expects to invest $6-$8 Billion dollars blanketing the US with 4G coverage for wireless phone carriers. The problem is their base station might be incompatible with GPS receivers used by most people for turn-by-turn directions, according to a report at Gizmodo. At issue is [...]
Verizon Refunding Up to $90 Million in Data Charges
On Sunday Verizon Wireless issued a statement saying that the company would be refunding up to $90 million in data charges for customers who owned one of the many flip phones who were charged $1.99 or more for internet access they didn’t actually want to use. The refund, which the N.Y. Times calls one of [...]
Super Wi-Fi Now Possible Thanks to FCC Ruling
The FCC voted unanimously to allow for the use of white space†spectrums for what the agency calls Super Wi-Fi†despite opposition from broadcasters and users of wireless microphones, like churches and theatre groups, according to Physorg.com (via Engadget). The TV white spaces are the area of the radio spectrum between the frequencies used by [...]
NMU Provides Lenovo R400′s and WiMAX to Students
Imagine this. You’re (back) in college, settling down in “your” booth of at the local coffeeshop with your decked out Lenovo R400 and you realize that all the research for your midterm essay is located on the History Department’s shared network drive. If you’re a student at almost any school other then Northern Michigan University (NMU) you’d have to abandon your already warmed up booth, guzzle your double hazelnut latte and trek back to campus to download the research to your hard drive, but students at NMU don’t even have to depend on the coffeeshop’s flaky wifi connection thanks to the roll-out of WiMAX at NMU and in the college town of Marquette.
