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White Spaces: “Super Wi-Fi” or Something Less?

Posted by Barlow Keener

Last month, Carl Ford of 4GWE fame, hosted a White Spaces session at his popular 4GWE LA West Coast conference.  The panel followed the release of the FCC’s September 23, 2010 white spaces order. There was great conversation on white spaces spectrum and regulatory issues.  I moderated the session.  Panelists included Brough Turner, CTO Netblazr [...]

Fiber on the Poles: The Final Frontier

Posted by Barlow Keener

The Recovery Act NTIA winners are waiting for millions of dollars of stimulus funding.   The NTIA winners receiving the largest grants will install fiber on thousands of miles of poles.  These NTIA fiber winners will be the new competitors to the ILECs who own the poles.  The FCC is trying to address the pole problem [...]