"The strategic implications of the second digital dividend," a discussion seminar with Simon Forge and Colin Blackman, 4 March 2013 at the PolicyTracker Training Suite in London

FCC's 5 GHz proceeding aims to quell Wi-Fi interference to licensees while giving 195 MHz more bandwidth to Wi-Fi, US Federal Communications Commission, Notice of Proposed Rule Making

"Receivers, Interference & Regulatory Options," by Madelaine Maior (report on a Silicon Flatirons Roundtable held 13 November 2012)

19 February 2013

US: NTIA report recommends opening the weather-satellite band at 1695-1710 MHz to sharing with mobile broadband, US Department of Commerce

"AT&T signs roaming deal with The Cloud to offer customers access to 16,000 free WiFi spots in the UK," by Matt Brian, The Next Web

18 February 2013

"Barclays launches free WiFi in 1,500 branches," by Kane Fulton, Information Age

16 February 2013

"We need more unlicensed space to spur the wireless connections of the future," by the Editorial Board, Sacramento Bee

15 February 2013

Journalists' use of mobile phones in conflict zones makes it easier to locate, track and attack them, by Danny O'Brien, Committee To Protect Journalists

14 February 2013

"The Wireless Revolution Hits Medicine," by Ron Winslow, The Wall Street Journal

"Home automation future and present: WiFi lightbulbs, speakers and doorlocks," by Andrew Rafter, Latest Gadgets

13 February 2013

"ISM-Advanced" group aims for new rules in an existing ISM band to evolve Wi-Fi toward license-free cognitive radio, by John Sydor, COST-TERRA

Project BATMAN (Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networks) wants mesh networking to enable carrierless cellular, by Russell Holly, Geek.com

Sierra Leone building Africa's 1st national WiFi network, Edgewater Wireless press release

Ruckus Wireless is "providing Wi-Fi to access hungry students across Africa," Ruckus press release (via All Africa)

"World Radio Day, John Cage and Cognitive Radio," by Linda Doyle

US: Senate Commerce Committee will call govt security agencies in for nonpublic briefing about their use of spectrum, by John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable

More on Microsoft's solar-powered "White-Fi" project in Kenya, by Curtis Abraham and Paul Marks, New Scientist

Starting this season NASCAR will limit drivers' radio comms to their own crew, ending talk with other drivers/teams, by Bob Pockrass, Sporting News

12 February 2013

UK investigating "passive radar" based on existing TV signals as replacement for current air traffic control radar, by Jane Wakefield, BBC News

More powerful processors and faster Wi-Fi will accelerate take-up of smart/connected televisions, Next Market Insights

Neul unveils 1st single-chip transceiver to implement the "Weightless" specification in UHF white space, by Tony Quested, Business Weekly

11 February 2013

"FCC adopts sweeping changes to Experimental Radio Service," ARRL News

9 February 2013

Large revisions of earlier mobile data growth rates and inconsistency with carrier reports to CTIA show that Cisco's VNI numbers are questionable, by Tim Farrar, GigaOm

"Wireless platforms" market worth $61.5 billion globally in 2011, $155.2 billion in 2016 (CAGR 20.3%), Markets & Markets press release (via Yahoo!)

New Zealand Govt. says 16-24 MHz of TV white space could be made available, invites "commercial proposals," NZ Radio Spectrum Policy & Planning Group

8 February 2013

"DARPA to develop technologies enabling radars and communications networks to share spectrum," DARPA press release

DARPA's Shared Spectrum Access: "Cutting-edge program seeks to thwart radio spectrum battles, bottlenecks," by Michael Coony, Layer 8 blog, Network World

"WiFi animates the debate on the future of mobile communications...," Frost & Sullivan press release (via TMCnet.com)

"Cecilia Kang is right: There really could be a free national WiFi network (of networks)," by Harold Feld, Wet Machine

"Why the Feds should promote Wi-Fi everywhere," by Michael Calabrese, Slate

"CogWave: Open-source [USRP] software platform for cognitive radio waveforms" by Dr. Ir. Vincent Le Nir, YouTube

7 February 2013

"The real way to free Wi-Fi," by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNET.com

"Wi-Fi may get a capacity boost, thanks to the FCC," by Andrew von Nagy, Revolution Wi-Fi

"Multi-standard wireless chip launched for the Internet of Things," by Sophie Curtis, Techworld

"Apple's next iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S4 could support 802.11ac 5G WiFi, new reports suggest," by Ashleigh Allsopp, Mac World

"The world's first baby monitor: Zenith's 1937 'Radio Nurse'," by Rebecca Onion, Slate

6 February 2013

"Open Spectrum does not mean free Internet," by Larry Seltzer, Network Computing

"Is free public WiFi possible?" by Timothy Karr, Huffington Post

Devicescape sees its Wi-Fi hotspot network growing from 12 million today to 100 million by 2017, Devicescape press release (via Light Reading Mobile)

"Spectrum: Sharing Nicely Can Go a Long Way," by Steve Wildstrom, Techpinions.com

"Interference Limits Policy: use of harm claim thresholds to improve interference tolerance...," FCC Technological Advisory Council, Receivers and Spectrum Working Group

Canada: "Competition [Bureau] seeks ban on smartphone 'locking,' end to high termination fees," by Christine Dobby, Financial Post

5 February 2013

"Google and Microsoft persist in spectrum adventures," by Caroline Gabriel, Maravedis-Rethink

"Wireless LAN market to expand 49% in 5 years," Dell'Oro Group press release (via Reuters)

US: "City of Tampa opens new public Wi-Fi hotspots," Tampa Bay Business Journal

"Zenneck Waves keep wearable tech wireless communications 'close to the vest'," by Tony Rizzo, Wearable Tech World

"Capitalizing on the cloud: Wireless connectivity in agriculture will make big gains in 2013," by David Hest, Farm Industry News

4 February 2013

"Microsoft teams with the Government of Kenya and Indigo Telecom to deliver low-cost, solar-powered broadband access using cutting-edge TV White Space technology," Microsoft press release

Microsoft to pilot white space networks in eastern & southern Africa to show economic viability, benefits, Microsoft on the Issues blog

Official announcement of the Philippine Government's plan to authorize wireless data networks in TV white spaces, Information & Communications Technology Office, Department of Science & Technology

"Fight data caps with Super Wi-Fi," by Patrick Thibodeau, ComputerWorld

"Public use of public airwaves sounds like a good idea to me," by Kevin Drum, Mother Jones

Brazil: "Sao Paulo to get free Wi-Fi this year," by Daniel Gumble, Mobile Entertainment

3 February 2013

"Tech, telecom giants take sides as FCC proposes large public WiFi networks," by Julie Jacobson (Associated Press via The Washington Post)

"Microsoft and Google team up to support FCC WiFi ideas," by John Callaham, NeoWin.net

"Super Bowl does Wi-Fi on a massive scale," by Jonathan Skillings, CNET.com News

US: "Getting a Wi-Fi connection is almost impossible at many federal office buildings..." by Nicole Blake Johnson, Federal Times

"Ask Slashdot: what to do about patent trolls seeking Wi-fi license fees?" samzenpus (via Slashdot

"Revenue-centric vs. growth-centric: the case of Super WiFi networks," by Reihan Salam, National Review

"The boon of radio frequency ID tags," by Nithin Belle, Khaleej Times

US: 2-way radio users struggle to implement narrower voice channels (12.5 kHz) as required by FCC, by Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News

2 February 2013

"Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Market is estimated to grow from 42.75 million in 2013 to reach 4.8 billion in 2018," WiGig Market research report announcement, Markets and Markets

1 February 2013

Today, CEPT's Working Group on Spectrum Engineering adopted 2 new reports on white space devices: ECC Report 185 and ECC Report 186

5th Future of Wireless International Conference, 1-2 July in Cambridge, England, Comms Business

Time Warner Cable Inc. plans to more than double its Wi-Fi network coverage this year, with focus on NYC, Jeff Baumgartner, Light Reading Cable

"Schools leading the way on wireless," by Simon Quicke, MicroScope

"'Six strikes' boss insists new system won't harm public Wi-Fi," by Joe Mullin, Ars Technica

Mexico: chambers of commerce challenge costly govt requirement for lab testing new Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and WLAN imports, Juarez News TV (in Spanish)

Guyana: open letter complains about lack of transparency in spectrum allocation and assignment, Stabroek News (Georgetown)

31 January 2013

"Future proofing Wi-Fi: the case for more spectrum," by Brian Williamson, Thomas Punton and Paul Hansell, Plum Consulting (for Cisco)

US: "Greatly expanded cellphone and [Wi-Fi coverage] will be tested at 5-10 units of the National Park System," by Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler

"Tiny LiFi LED lights set to deliver WiFi style Internet communications," by Mark Jackson, ISP Review

"Wi-Fi as an industrial network option," by Mike Fahrion, Automation World

"Google Glass, Explorer Edition, arrives at the FCC" (equipped with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth), by Daniel Cooper, Engadget

Expensive hotels love Wi-Fi fees even if their guests don't, by Rob Lovitt, NBC News

"Guy Eymin Petot Tourtollet's Wi-Fi-Blocking Wallpaper," by Caroline Winter, BloombergBusinessWeek

AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile agree to explore spectrum sharing with US Defense Dept. in the 1755-1850 MHz band, by Phil Goldstein, Fierce Wireless

English-language synopsis of Hungary's Spectrum Management Strategy for 2012-2015, by Cameron McKenna & Dóra Petrányi, Lexology

30 January 2013

"Super Wi-Fi Summit: The Future is Now, and the White Space Industry is Delivering," by Barlow Keener, Mobile TechZone

"The Philippines will roll out TV white space technology to cover the whole country by 2014," by Paul M. Icamina, Malaya Business Insight

"Free Wi-Fi: The Movement to Give Away Your Internet for the Sake of Humanity," by Keith Wagstaff, MotherBoard

29 January 2013

"New, Contiguous Spectrum at 5 Gigahertz Will Drive Transition to Gigabit Wi-Fi, Encourage Economic Growth," by Jim Scott, Cisco Communities

"Unlicensed spectrum use, 'repacking' among top concerns in public comments to FCC," by Paul Barbagallo, Telecommunications Law Resource Center, (via Bloomberg News)

"Will small cells thrive under spectrum sharing regime?" by Frank Rayal

"Internet of Things 2013 Innovation Contest" for new smart objects demonstrating the value of TCP/IP connectivity, Wireless Sensor Nets blog

"5 ways the spectrum is revolutionizing medical care," by Paul Kruczkowski, RF GlobalNet

BladeRF, a bus-powered USB 3.0 Software Defined Radio for education and product development, Nuand.com (via Kickstarter)

"London Underground to test [head-mounted] Wi-Fi video cameras for maintenance staff," Cellular News

"The 802.11 family grows in more ways than one," by Carl Weinschenk, IT Business Edge

28 January 2013

"A new spectrum observatory in Brussels: providing data to inform policy decisions," by Jim Beveridge, Microsoft Europe

"The Slow March to Cognitive Radio," by Charles J. Gervasi, Element14 Community

"WhiteSpace Alliance Endorses PCAST Report on Spectrum Sharing," WhiteSpace Alliance press release

FCC might favor spectrum for Wi-Fi rather than for cellular, by Todd Shields, Bloomberg News

Researchers develop device that steers and focuses terahertz beams electrically, by John Scholten, Innovations Report

Lawsuit seeks order banning police use of THz scanners on passersby without "probable cause" or "reasonable suspicion," by Bruce Golding and Kirsten Conley, New York Post

"Nokia Siemens Networks enables world first live TV broadcast via TD-LTE," Nokia Siemens press release

Open source SIM kit lets users modify SIM card content to "circumvent network providers," by Wayan Vota, ICT Works

US: "Petition to decriminalize smartphone unlocking gains steam," by Eric Mack, CNET.com News

"Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts has launched a free WiFi service in limousines," by Louise Birchall, Hotelier Middle East

27 January 2013

"Unlicensed Spectrum and the Challenge of Finding Investment Capital," by Armand Musey, Summit Ridge Group

26 January 2013

"Deutsche Telekom eyes stake in Wi-Fi operator": FON, by Stephan Doerner & Archibald Preuschat, Wall Street Journal

"Google responds to FCC request for more info about experimental radio project," by Steve J. Crowley, Stevencrowley.com

"New MIMO Antenna Further Improves Bandwidth Efficiency and System Reliability," MP Antenna press release

25 January 2013

"White Spaces Broadband Technology Advances Overseas," by Joan Engebretson, Telecompetitor

"Remote Health Monitoring Will Be Big," by Carl Weinschenk, IT Business Edge

"Firearms distributors to track guns via RFID," by Claire Swedberg, RFID Journal

Impact of unlicensed RLAN use of the bands 5350-5470 and 5850-5925 MHz on US Govt systems, US National Telecommunications and Information Administration report

Harold Feld: AT&T's spectrum purchases cross "just about every single red line" that the FCC and the Dept. of Justice drew against market concentration, Tales of the Sausage Factory

Bolivia's telecom regulator releases many new frequencies for radio & TV broadcasting, Resolucion Administrativa Regulatoria ATT-DJ-RA TL 0030/2013 (in Spanish)

24 January 2013

US: coalition of broadcasters and mobile network operators send FCC a letter outlining their consensus planning principles for shared use of UHF, by Dave Seyler, RBR/TVBR.com

"Eutelsat Air Access" offers up to 100 Mbps per airliner for passenger connectivity over Europe and the Mediterranean, Eutelsat press release

"Aeroflot to introduce Wi-Fi on long-haul flights," by Evgeniya Chaykovskaya, Moscow News

"The Cloud [UK] sees %400 increase in tablets using Wi-Fi network in past year," Cloud press release

KitKat ad campaign creates no-Wi-Fi zones in Amsterdam by deploying benches with 2.4GHz signal jammers, by Daniela Walker, PSFK

Case study: BT's high-density Wi-fi access network at the London Olympics in 2012, British Telecom

"Wi-Fi network planned for NY's Grand Central terminal," by Adario Strange, PC Magazine

NY Police Dept.'s new terahertz scanner can be put on a street corner and see concealed weapons carried by passersby, by Francie Diep, Tech News Daily

"Bluetooth Comes of Age," by Bill Weir, C. Michael Kim & David Miller, Yahoo! News

23 January 2013

Analysis of Google's "confidential" application for an experimental FCC license to test a new radio system at 2.5 GHz, by Steven J. Crowley, Stevencrowley.com

Q&A: What the FCC's expansion of Wi-Fi allocations at 5 GHz means for you, by John Cox, Network World

France gives experimental licence to CEA-Leti to test cognitive radio technologies in TV white space, by Julien Happich, EE Times Europe

"World's 1st TV White Space prototype based on IEEE 802.22 for wireless Regional Area Network," National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan) press release

UK Programme Group for Dynamic Spectrum Access "will assist in the development of the TV white space eco-system," Digital Television Group press release

"KPN partners with Fon to expand Wi-Fi network," Telecom Paper

22 January 2013

Scotland: "University of Strathclyde's Centre for White Space Communications officially opened by [UK culture minister] Ed Vaizey," by Jamillah Knowles, The Next Web

"Wi-Fi Alliance opens bureaus in Beijing and Taipei," Wi-Fi Alliance press release

"Luxury meets tech: 2014 Bentley Mulsanne becomes a Wi-Fi hotspot," by Stephen Edelstein, Digital Trends

"Is '6 Strikes' A Trojan to Kill Free Wi-Fi?" by Alan Wexelblat, Corante

"6 Strikes Administrator: Loss of Open WiFi Access at Cafes is Acceptable Collateral Damage," by Mike Masnick, TechDirt

21 January 2013

"The Future Of Wireless: The Case For Spectrum Sharing," by Eric Savitz, Forbes Magazine

Chaos at PTA: court removes chairman of Pakistan's telecom authority, govt warns underlings not to act in his place, by Aamir Attaa, Pro Pakistani

19 January 2013

"A new dimension in mobile telecommunications": EU research consortium seeks to develop low-cost 10Gbps transceiver, Centros de Estudios e Investigaciones Tecnicas press release (13 December 2012)

18 January 2013

"EBU delegation meets Kroes in spectrum campaign," by Julian Clover, Broadband TV News,

"Globalstar Wi-Fi spectrum plan draws fire," by Doug Lung, TV Technology

"Will network operators start charging for Wi-Fi?" by Marguerite Reardon, CNET.com News

Indonesian government to install 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in schools this year, United Press International

US football league turns to apps and Wi-Fi to halt shrinking game attendance, by David Goldman, CNN MoneyTech

17 January 2013

Thailand releases USO funds ($32 million) for free public Wi-Fi: 40,000 hotspots in 2013, 250,000 in next 5 years, by Don Sambandaraksa, TelecomAsia.net

US/Canada: "How to make free voice calls over Wi-Fi with Facebook Messenger for iPhone," by Rene Ritchie, iMore

Facebook will add free VoWiFi calling to its non-iOS Messenger app, make it available overseas, BBC

South Africa: Vodafone said to "have signed away its right to offer Wi-Fi in any of its operations" without WirelessG, by Rudolph Mulle, My Broadband

Wireless communication nodes for private utilities will be a $428 million/year business by 2020, Pike Research

"Sensors, sensors, everywhere: will they keep us from seeing for ourselves?" by Sarah Rotman Epps, ReadWrite Web

16 January 2013

"Accuris Networks offers SIM based Wi-Fi account authentication," Cellular News

"Cardiac rhythm management" the main connected medical device type now; "connected sleep therapy" could overtake by 2017, Radio-Electronics.com

US: AM Revitalization Inititiative will fail without stricter limits on interference, by Chris Imlay, Radio World

15 January 2013

Telecom issues expected to be addressed by the US Congress (2013-4), by David Leiter, Jeremy Rabinovitz & Rachel Sanford, Lexology

$800,000 to Virginia Tech researchers to improve radio spectrum sharing via interference cancellation, node sharing, Virginia Tech News Office

To fight theft of addictive drugs, NYC police may ask drugstores to "stock" GPS-equipped fake pill bottles, Associated Press (via NewsMax)

"Free Wi-fi, sponsored by location-based ads, is not a pipe dream. It's a right," by Sam Churchill, Daily Wireless

"Alvarion strikes Wi-Fi offload deal with Japanese operator," by Phil Goldstein, Fierce Wireless

Voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation enabled on Wi-Fi only iOS handheld devices by Co-Pilot and Bad Elf, by Edwin Kee, UberGizmo

ReelSonar "bobber" for fishermen uses sonar to locate fish, sends map and depth info to your smartphone via Bluetooth, by Amanda Kooser, CNET.com

"Tethercell lets you control any battery powered device wirelessly," DVice

"Wireless Charging Market is growing at a CAGR of 57.46%... worth $7.161 Billion by 2017," MarketsandMarkets press release

14 January 2013

"Dude, we're gonna need more wireless," by Matt Hamblen, Computerworld

In the age of the connected home, your mobile devices are becoming the brains of the smart home experience, by Christina Bonnington, Wired

13 January 2013

"Why Amtrak's 4G upgrade isn't likely to make on-train Wi-Fi any more reliable," by Chris Welch, The Verge

12 January 2013

2nd workshop organized by the Wireless Spectrum R&D Senior Steering Group (which coordinates spectrum research by the US Government) will be 17-18 January at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center in California

31 January: FCC's next open meeting will consider a Report and Order modernizing the rules for experimental licenses

11 January 2013

UK: AM broadcasting could survive to 2020 or longer, Radio Today

"Details of various 6 Strikes plans revealed; may create serious problems for free WiFi," by Mike Masnick, TechDirt

"The need for a balanced US spectrum policy between licensed and unlicensed uses," by Andrew von Nagy, Revolution Wi-Fi

"Will Oculus Rift be the 'coolest gadget ever'? An interview with creator Palmer Luckey," by Elise Ackerman, Forbes Magazine

"Almond+ expands the router's domain, adds Zigbee and Z-Wave Smart Home Control," by Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch

"Radio frequency identification replaces workers," by Luke Abaffy, Engineering News-Record

10 January 2013

"Looking for radio's future? Check the car," by John Paul Titlow, ReadWrite Mobile

Documents for discussion at meeting of CEPT's Maintenance Group on Short-Range Devices (8-11 January 2013 in Dublin)

"IEEE approve new 802.11ad ultrafast 7Gbps WiFi 60GHz wireless standard," by Mark Jackson, ISP Review

"Wireless mesh networks at 65 MPH: linking cars to prevent crashes," by Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica

"Inside [South Africa's] 'white spaces' broadband trial," by Craig Wilson, Tech Central

"AT&T: Wi-Fi will be in all of our small cell deployments," Telecom TV

"Tech crowd welcomes FCC's Wi-Fi expansion plans," by Stephen Lawson, PC Advisor

"Amtrak is upgrading its on-train Wi-Fi service," Los Angeles Times

"5,000 UK pubs get free Wi-Fi - and they're not even all in London," by Bill Ray, The Register

9 January 2013

"New Wi-Fi Alliance technologies shine at CES 2013," Wi-Fi Alliance press release (via Fierce Broadband)

"The merger of cellular & Wi-Fi: The wireless network's future," by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDnet

In a speech at CES, FCC chairman says an additional 195 MHz will be allocated to Wi-Fi in the 5 GHz band, by Joe Mullen, Ars Technica

Rural WISP says unlicensed wireless has "10:1 cost advantage over licensed," white space eqpt is slow and 4x as costly, by Tammy Parker, Fierce Wireless

"Las Vegas: MGM properties introducing free Wi-Fi in public areas," by Jay Jones, Los Angeles Times

Seagate's Wireless Plus external hard drive (a Best of Innovations Winner debuting at CES) has Wi-Fi hotspot embedded, by Alice Truong, Discovery News

"Is Bluetooth about to get--gulp--cool?" by Kit Eaton, Fast Company

"Bluetooth fork stops you eating too fast," Radio-Electronics

8 January 2013

Will FCC rule change lead to auctioning public safety LMR licenses? by Michael Higgs, Urgent Communications

Qualcomm and Wilocity announce first reference design to combine 802.11n, 802.11ac and 802.11ad (WiGig) in one product, by Dong Ngo, CNET.com

Because "nobody likes ports on devices," more than 200 smartphones, tablets, TVs, etc., already have the new Miracast wireless display technology, by Matt Hamblen, ComputerWorld

"Sony pushes NFC at CES with 'One-touch' mobile phones, TVs, headsets, speakers and more," by Sarah Clark, Near Field Communications World

"Spread Spectrum: Safe haven for wireless consumer applications, Part II," by Rahul Garg & Prakhar Goyal, Electronic Design Network

Service differentiation beats offloading as celco reason for deploying Wi-Fi. Still unsolved: monetization, roaming, Amdocs press release

7 January 2013

"The 'Internet of Things' gets a consortium," by Charles Cooper, CNET.com News

"WiGig taking centre stage at 2013 International CES," Wireless Gigabit Alliance press release

Google and the Chelsea Improvement Co. launch New York City's biggest free/public Wi-Fi net, Chelsea Improvement Co.

6 January 2013

Disney World's use of RFID will transform visitors' experience, Walt Disney World News Today

5 January 2013

238-slide tutorial on "Machine-to-Machine in Smart Grids & Smart Cities: Technologies, Standards and Applications," by Mischa Dohler, David Boswarthick and Jesús Alonso-Zárate, Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute