Wireless Unleashed

The comment deadline is approaching in the important FCC proceeding to open up the un-used "white spaces" around broadcast licenses. Last week, however, a technical advisory committee of the Instit...

We've posted some whitepapers written by the contributors to this site, providing various perspectives on unlicensed wireless. You can find summaries (and a few older papers) in the articles sectio...

This is from a recent John Kerry white paper:
The Kerry plan will complete the transition to digital television, and accelerate the return of valuable spectrum that is currently being used for broa...

From Computer Weekly:
Airlines won a key battle in their fight with airports over control of the Wi-Fi spectrum when the US Federal Communications Commission ruled that it has 'exclusive jurisdicti...

In the near-term, say the next three years, I think wireless network architectures will yield some of the biggest technological surprises. Absence of license will unleash constraints on licentious ...

The unspoken secret, the elephant in the room, of WirelessUnleashed is that broadcast as we know it is circling the drain. In my humble opinion. And more capable, more powerful Internet access will...

I agree completely with Clay Shirky (in the "Voice as the app killer" posting) that voice revenues
are going to decline drastically. Voice is the killer app, but that does not imply it is going to ...

OK, so maybe this insight won't win any no-Bell prizes, but here goes:
Not only would wireless services on unlicensed TV spectrum break the telco/cableco duopoly and cause prices for them to fall a...

I should have my head examined for writing about the economics of voice on a blog I share with Odlyzko (The history of communications and its implicatoins for the internet is one of the best things...

This one-page document from the NTIA is excellent in its brevity and completeness.