Terahertz Wireless through Quantum Tunneling
Posted on January 31, 2008 - Filed Under New Products | 3 Comments
Jason Lee Miller from Web Pro News recently wrote about a company that is using Quantum Tunneling technology to develop microchips that would operate in the Terahertz region, wirelessly transmitting huge amounts of data at blazing speeds.
The appropriately named Phiar Corporation, located in Boulder Colorado, is developing metal insulator diodes that can be integrated into […]
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Read More..>>Jaduka’s EarthCaller Delivers Voice Quality, Free U.S. Calls and Lowest Cost International Dialing
Posted on January 30, 2008 - Filed Under New Products | 2 Comments
Reliability and quality have been VoIP’s achilles heel. Even with recent improvements, if you rely on VoIP calls, you know that the voice quality is nowhere near the quality of landline phones. That’s because landline phone calls run over the public switched phone network (PSTN) and those systems have improved over decades to include mechanisms […]
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Read More..>>WiMax Forum Looking at FDD Profile
Posted on January 25, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary | Leave a Comment
Senior says they have been working on the profile for the past twelve months, but have kept it under the table for fear of upsetting their chances of getting the IMT-2000 approval for Mobile WiMax. The ITU endorsed WiMax in May of last year for the 2.6GHz swath of spectrum, thinking that TDD WiMax would sit in 50MHz between two 70MHz bands configured for FDD. With an FDD profile in place, Mobile WiMax could score a coup for the whole swath.
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Read More..>>Clearwire, Nortel Partner for VoIP over a WiMax Network
Posted on January 24, 2008 - Filed Under VoIP News | Leave a Comment
Wireless broadband provider Clearwire Corp announced this week that it was partnering with Nortel Networks to offer VoIP telephony services to its customers over its own network infrastructure…Last summer, Clearwire struck a deal with Satellite TV providers DirecTV and Echostar that would allow each of the companies to sell a bundle of Internet, voice, and TV services. If they can make it work, another player in the triple play market can only be a good thing for the consumer.
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Read More..>>Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile on White Spaces
Posted on January 21, 2008 - Filed Under Articles | Leave a Comment
The FCC, who will begin testing wireless devices in the spectrum on January 24, now have another option for how to use the white space. Will they stand by their commitment to eliminate the Digital Divide in the U.S., expanding broadband Internet access for all nationwide? Or will the allure of licensing the spectrum and pumping more money into the Treasury sway them to further embed the cellular monopolies into the publics’ electromagnetic right of way?
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Read More..>>White Spaces Coalition Stumbles, Tries Again
Posted on January 18, 2008 - Filed Under Articles | Leave a Comment
Like the 700MHz UHF band of spectrum, these lower (2-698 MHz) radio waves travel far and penetrate deep, making them ideal for large rural expanses, as well as densely populated cities. It has been said by some that this spectrum could provide speeds up to 80mbs, and that access could be as low as as $10 per month.
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Read More..>>FCC 2008 700MHz Auction Overview
Posted on January 16, 2008 - Filed Under Articles | 2 Comments
The whole argument of the open access vs. walled garden approach rekindled the Net Neutrality debate, with the Free Marketers (i.e. AT&T, Verizon) arguing against Federal regulation of the Internet. Cell phones from today’s carriers are heavily subsidized, and without them, retail prices would be upwards of $200. Rouge devices or bandwidth hogging applications could bring a network to its knees.
In the end, the FCC’s decision in this case was a victory for wireless network neutrality, with open devices and applications getting a free ride on the wireless waves. Perhaps as a consequence, late last year Verizon caved by announcing it would open its network to any device or application that meets its specifications by later this year. Man, they really must want a piece of this pie bad!
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Read More..>>The FCC Auction of the 700MHz Spectrum
Posted on January 14, 2008 - Filed Under Articles | 2 Comments
The 700MHz band of spectrum has a unique set of properties and capabilities that have not been available to the market since, well, since television took to the airwaves. Able to penetrate deep into buildings and travel 4 times farther than its peer frequencies, the FCC, as well as many commercial interests, see a once in a lifetime opportunity to build a nationwide wireless broadband network covering metropolitan and rural regions across the country, turning the have nots into the haves, and virtually eliminating the Digital Divide in the U.S..
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Read More..>>Comcast Slides into Fourth Place as Largest Phone Service in U.S.
Posted on January 11, 2008 - Filed Under VoIP News | 2 Comments
Comcast announced this week at CES that it has surpassed first Vonage and now Embarq, to become the fourth largest residential phone service provider in the U.S., behind Verizon, AT&T, and Quest. According to CEO Brian L. Roberts, Comcast is the fastest growing residential phone service in the country, now offering its triple play of voice, video, and broadband Internet access to over 40 million households.
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Read More..>>The Face of Telecommunications in 2008
Posted on January 8, 2008 - Filed Under Commentary | Leave a Comment
As we look to the New Year, we can thank the innovators of last year: the Verizons, the Googles, the Sprints, Clearwires and Intels, the Apples, and yes, even the FCC, for the technologies looming on the horizon, and the inevitable winners and losers that are yet to be determined, but promise to make 2007 look like the calm before the storm.
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