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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin finally gave in to pressure Dec. 12 from both Congress and the Bush administration to cancel a scheduled Dec. 18 agency vote on a controversial proposal to impose a free wireless broadband mandate on the FCC’s next spectrum auction. Martin’s decision to cancel the vote came after Sen. John […]

Network neutrality proponents are savaging a Dec. 15 Wall Street Journal report that search giant Google is abandoning its longtime pro-network-neutrality stance in order to facilitate its own plan to create a fast lane for itself. According to the story, Google is seeking preferential treatment from broadband providers by seeking to place Google servers directly […]

Two Democrats with Federal Communications Commission oversight authority in the U.S. Senate and House asked FCC Chairman Kevin Martin Dec. 12 to postpone the agency’s scheduled Dec. 18 vote to impose a free wireless broadband mandate on the FCC’s next spectrum auction. Sen. John D. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., the incoming chairman of the Senate Commerce and […]

The Bush administration is opposing a Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction plan that would require the winner to provide a free wireless broadband tier to 50 percent of the United States in four years and 95 percent of the country within 10 years. The FCC is expected to vote on the plan as early as […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is moving aggressively on the acquisition front, announcing Dec. 11 it has an agreement to purchase content delivery platform Chalk Media in an $18.7 million all cash deal. The deal follows a Dec. 10 formal filing launching RIM’s hostile takeover bid for security vendor Certicom. Chalk Media, a member of […]

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have one WiMax deployment up and rolling in Baltimore and at the October debut of the nation’s first 4G wireless service, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire officials crowed that they have the time-to-market drop on larger rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless, which are just now pushing out their 3G services. Verizon Wireless […]

U.S. House Democrats released the results of their yearlong investigation of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin’s handling of the agency. Although the report found Martin guilty of the “most egregious abuses of power, suppression of information and manipulation of data,” the probe stopped short of accusing Martin of breaking any laws. The report-Deception and […]

Again pledging his commitment to technology, President-elect Barack Obama said Dec. 6 that investing heavily in computers and broadband connections for schools and hospitals will be part of his immediate economic recovery plans after he takes office Jan. 20. Obama pledged during his weekly address over the radio and the Internet to make the single […]

Broadcom added to its combo family of chips Dec. 8, announcing the chipmaker has integrated 802.11n Wi-Fi, FM and Bluetooth on a single silicon die. The integration allows mobile phones to support more media and data applications without impacting size or battery life. Since most handheld devices lack the space, battery power and processing power […]

The new Symbian Foundation Initiative welcomed six new members Dec. 4 and promised to have a preliminary version of its royalty-free mobile operating system ready for review in the first half of 2009 and to have distributions available under the Eclipse Public License by June 2010. Nokia, the global leader in mobile handset sales, announced […]