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Members of Congress seek flexibility in FCC's rural broadband requirements

Members of Congress seek flexibility in FCC's rural broadband requirements
A key element of the CAF II program will be providing fiber-fed broadband services, or some form of a fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) type of architecture using a mix of ADSL2+ or VDSL2 with vectoring to deliver the service over the existing copper connection …
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US airborne communication plane could be tracked on the Web for 9 hours …
… callsign, but based on the hex code FR24 could identify it as a Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft, an advanced ultra long-range business jet that has been modified by the U.S. Air Force to accomodate Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN …
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Is There a Ma Joad for the Piketty Era?
“Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution,” Steinbeck wrote in one of the novel's inner chapters. “This is the ….. “Does it offer a sustained and compelling diagnosis of the terminal pathology that afflicts us, or is it an especially …
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Reply Comment Deadline Extended in Proposed 5 GHz Unlicensed Broadband Expansion

The FCC this week extended until July 24 the deadline to file reply comments in its proceeding to allow unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices at 5 GHz. The FCC in February sought comment on making available an additional 195 megahertz of spectrum in the 5.35-5.47 GHz and 5.85-5.925 GHz bands for U-NII use. Reply comments are responses to comments already filed in the pr…

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ARRL Comments on Proposed Expansion of 5 GHz Unlicensed Broadband

Observing that “a decision in the near term with respect to the addition of [unlicensed National Information Infrastructure] U-NII devices to the 5.85-5.925 GHz band would be premature,” the ARRL has commented in response to an FCC Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ET Docket No. 13-49) that proposes to authorize U-NII use of an additional 195 megahertz of spectrum in the 5.35-5.47 GHz and 5.85-5….

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