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Sources of Wireless News
Industry associations
- Bluetooth Special Interest Group
- Wireless Broadband Access Network Coordination
- Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association
- DECT Forum
- End-to-End Reconfigurability Project
- Global VSAT Forum
- Global Wireless Education Consortium
- License Exempt Alliance (WCAI)
- Near-Field Communication Forum: "a non-profit industry association founded by Nokia Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics and Sony Corporation to advance the use of NFC short-range wireless interaction in consumer electronics, mobile devices and PCs. The NFC Forum will promote implementation and standardization of NFC technology to ensure interoperability..."
- RFID Association of India
- Software Defined Radio Forum
- UWB Forum
- Wi-fi Alliance (formerly WECA)
- WiMAX Forum
- Wireless Broadband Alliance
- Wireless Communications Association International
- Wireless World Research Forum - objectives are to "formulate strategic visions on future research directions in the mobile and wireless area" and "enable global R&D collaboration."
- ZigBee Alliance
Miscellaneous
- Open Spectrum UK- see especially the blog notes and streaming video from our joint event at the London Science Museum, 26 May 2005, "Wireless Utopias 05: An Open Future?"
- Sin Licencia (en Espanol), www.licencefree.com (in English) - well-researched webpages about unlicensed "walkie-talkies" for the 446 MHz band. Includes a table of European implementations of rules for this service (as of 2003) , a Spanish-language forum for users, and a fascinating article (in Spanish) about Donald Hings, the Canadian who invented the "walkie-talkie" in 1937, with photographs of some of his early models.
- Association for Progressive Communications
- Cisco System's global chart showing Wireless LAN Compliance Status for their products. If you know the band used by each product, you may be able to infer the regulatory status of various bands - but this is not foolproof.
- Wireless for Development listserver (IDRC)
- Hong Kong Telecom Research Project - see especially the profiles of telecom environments in different Asian countries each month (free).
- Asociación Hispanoamericana de Centros de Investigación y Empresas de Telecomunicaciones (Hispano-American Association of Research Centers and Telecom Companies)
- "Who's afraid of the Digital Divide?" by Val Souza, Express Computer (India), in three parts: 14 March 2005, 4 April 2005, 18 April 2005.
- Wireless Communication Research Program - a collaboration between the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (University of California at Berkeley), and ETLA, the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.
- "ICT Infrastructure Policy and the Role of Participation in Extending Connectivity," Social Science Research Council - Rohan Samarajiva, project leader
- Presentations and materials for a Workshop on Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Development in Transition Countries, in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, 21 May 2005.