Free Press: wireless network

Plano School District Wants to Provide Wireless Network to Poor Students

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:28:14 -0700

$27,000 to Watch a Chicago Bears Game

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:49:17 -0800

CTIA Removes Roadblock to Open Access

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:28:53 -0800

WASHINGTON -- According to news reports, wireless industry trade association CTIA has dropped its legal challenge to the open access conditions imposed on a portion of the 700 MHz spectrum by the Federal Communications Commission.

Cox to Offer Wireless Service

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:07:34 -0700

Sprint's New Wireless Service May Throttle Internet Traffic

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:22:55 -0700

WASHINGTON -- Sprint Nextel's new XOHM wireless service includes a clause that allows the company to limit consumers' access to content and applications on the WiMAX network. According to XOHM's "network management" policy, Sprint "may use various tools and techniques designed to limit the bandwidth available for certain bandwidth intensive applications or protocols, such as file sharing."

AOL Turns the iPhone into an Expensive Radio

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:21:51 -0700

Here’s one way I listened to the radio in grade school: I wound a coil of wire and connected it to a small crystal, a little yellow earphone and a few other parts nailed to a board. This crystal radio was enough to receive WJR, then the CBS affiliate in Detroit, where I grew up. Batteries were not required.

Reserving Judgment on Sprint/Clearwire/Google/Intel/ForcesofDarkness Deal

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:42:10 -0700

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

Adelstein Comments on Sprint-Clearwire Venture

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:36:23 -0700

In response to the announcement from Clearwire and Sprint-Nextel, Commissioner Adelstein released the following statement:

Is the New Sprint-Clearwire Venture Doomed to Failure?

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:33:13 -0700

The deal to merge Sprint Nextel's WiMax business unit with Clearwire to build a nationwide 4G network is finally complete, but the newly formed company could be doomed before it even gets out of the gate.

Battle of the Broadband

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:30:17 -0700

Typical broadband speeds in the United States are barely in the top 15 globally, trailing such technological hotbeds as Luxembourg and Norway.