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- Risking Another Frontline Disaster
- The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial that FCC chair Kevin Martin is about to screw things up again on the public wireless Internet front. The first time around Martin tried to rig the D block auction to hand 700MHz spectrum over to Frontline Wireless, formed by former commissioner...
- Tags: FCC, Auction, Journal, M2Z, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- FCC rejects startup's plan to pay for spectrum with royalties
- How does a broadband wireless network covering 95 percent of the Americas sound? M2Z Networks claims that's what it would have created if the Federal Communications Commission hadn't failed to even consider its plan, according to InfoWorld. The startup says it may sue the government as a...
- Tags: FCC, Start-up, Plan, Spectrum, M2Z, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
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- Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the dead
- OK, public spectrum, take 2. Or is it 3? After the infamous D-block auction meltdown, the FCC is set with a new plan to have the private sector deliver free Internet over the airwaves, Reuters reports. And FCC chair Kevin Martin's plan includes another long-held fantasy of policymakers: a...
- Tags: FCC, M2Z Networks, Municipal Wi-Fi, Broadband, Spectrum, Wireless, Martin, Internet, Federal Government, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Government, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
- In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Amy Schatz writes that a proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost after Federal Communications Commission engineers "concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers." Which is all well and good, except...
- Tags: FCC, Airwave, Wireless Internet, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Government, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- FCC: Free wireless spectrum won't harm T-Mobile
- Back in May, the FCC was to vote on rules for a national free wireless spectrum along the lines of a proposal by M2Z Networks. But rather than handing over 25MHz of spectrum to the Kleiner Perkins-based company, the FCC decided to auction the spectrum off to...
- Tags: FCC, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Latest spectrum auction could mean national wireless network
- The FCC is set to vote on rules for a new spectrum auction that would require the winner to deliver wireless Internet across wide swaths of America, AP reports. "We're hoping there will be increased interest in the proposal and for the fact that this will...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Auction, Wireless Network, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Big cell would love to quash free wireless broadband upstart
- M2Z Networks would like to acquire 20MHz of free spectrum in the from the FCC in order to offer free wireless broadband to 95 percent of U.S. residents within ten years.The FCC isn't too keen on the idea. Fifteen months on now, and tick tock. Now, M2Z is threatening...
- Tags: FCC, Broadband, Cell, Wireless Broadband, Wireless, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
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