Editor’s Observe: RCR Wi-fi Information goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the highest headlines from the previous. Fireplace up the time machine, placed on these sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and benefit from the recollections!
FCC assigns spectrum for clever transportation
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Fee final week allotted 75 megahertz of spectrum for good freeway applied sciences, corresponding to automated toll cubicles, monitoring site visitors jams, vacationers’ alerts, and enabling site visitors alerts to be altered remotely to assist ambulance drivers. The company expects to rule on licensing procedures for the brand new spectrum early subsequent yr, stated Julius Knapp, deputy director of the FCC’s Workplace of Engineering and Know-how. Good highways applied sciences will make use of devoted short-range wi-fi hyperlinks to switch info between automobiles and roadside programs. The applied sciences are being developed by personal business with enter from the Division of Transportation. … Learn extra
Sea Launch logs first DirecTV satellite tv for pc launch
LOS ANGELES-Sea Launch, the multinational ocean-based launch providers firm, Oct. 9 efficiently launched its first industrial satellite-a DirecTV 1-R satellite tv for pc from its Odyssey launch platform positioned on the equator, about 1,400 miles southeast of Hawaii. Hughes House & Communications constructed the DirecTV satellite tv for pc, which as soon as sign acquisition is full, ought to play a key function in increasing capability and delivering native broadcast community channels to DirecTV clients in main metropolitan markets throughout the nation. Sea Launch stated launching satellites from the equator is probably the most direct and cost-effective path to geostationary switch orbit, permitting clients to launch heavier payloads whereas utilizing much less gas. For telecommunications corporations, this implies they will launch extra satellites for much less value. … Learn extra
US Senate evaluations new wi-fi sourcing invoice
WASHINGTON-Sens. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Byron Dorgan (N.D.), backed by business and cities, final week launched laws to simplify taxation of wi-fi carriers by native and state authorities. As an alternative of getting wi-fi calls taxed by a number of jurisdictions, the Cellular Telecommunications Sourcing Act would assign all state and native taxes to a buyer’s place of major use. That may very well be a residence or enterprise handle. The present system is alleged to be an accounting nightmare for carriers and a drain on native governments. “State and native taxing authorities could be relieved of burdensome audit and oversight tasks with out shedding the authority to tax wi-fi calls. And shoppers would take pleasure in decrease costs and fewer billing complications,” stated Brownback, a member-like Dorgan-of the Senate Commerce Committee. Aides to the lawmakers stated they are going to push for passage of the invoice earlier than Congress adjourns for the yr on Nov. 19. … Learn extra
Dash says information will drive PCS demand
The wi-fi business is ready to see what number of clients are interested in Dash PCS Group’s wi-fi Web providers, however they must wait not less than one other quarter. Dash PCS, which launched nationwide wi-fi Internet service in late September, stated it’s too early to offer numbers on what number of clients are signing up for the service. However Dash PCS President Andy Sukawaty stated Dash PCS is signing up 1000’s of shoppers per week. “Information might be a strong driver of demand,” stated Sukawaty. “Even when clients don’t need Internet providers immediately, they wish to be with a supplier that gives it … We have now greater than 2 million data-capable telephones in our buyer base by October.” Final week, the provider introduced an settlement with Ameritrade that may enable Dash PCS clients to commerce inventory through their handsets. The corporate will proceed to announce extra content material suppliers and handsets along with its agreements with Yahoo!, Bloomberg and CNN, stated Sukawaty. … Learn extra
PageMart rebrands as WebLink Wi-fi, says e-pager is the ‘new world’
In an try and place paging gadgets and providers as Web home equipment, versus phone home equipment, PageMart Wi-fi Inc. stated it’s going to change its identify to WebLink Wi-fi Inc., efficient Dec. 1, and in addition launched a brand new line of services and products referred to as e-pager, obtainable nationwide. “If we had been simply within the conventional paging enterprise, the PageMart identify could be wonderful,” stated John Beletic, the corporate’s chairman and chief govt officer. “However we have now three-fourths of our capital invested in one thing radically totally different, and PageMart is a poor descriptor of this new world.” Whereas all one-way numeric pagers and repair will proceed to be marketed and offered underneath the PageMart model, Beletic stated all superior messaging services and products will fall into the e-pager household. “The e-pager clearly positions itself within the shoppers’ minds that that is totally different. That is Web-based. It brings out a hidden attribute not related to alphanumeric pagers.” In assist of the e-pager debut, PageMart launched a brand new Site-www.e-pager.com. … Learn extra
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