hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.
What the heck is up with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s 700 MHz draft? What a headache! We thought the overarching concern was getting first responders access to spectrum, but that appears to be a yawn compared with the uproar over a potential open-access component. And while regulators were busy dissing the wireless industry last week at the House hearing on the subject, did anyone mention that Sprint Nextel is hoping to allow open access on its WiMAX network-without a government mandate?
Plus, it seems like the mainstream press isn’t reporting why carriers would want to control their networks (to avoid overloading the network).
But if the wireless industry wants to stop open-access mandates, it simply should point out that carrier decks are free from pornography today because carriers control the deck.
The Internet, however, is so full of adult content that you can be certain to trip across it just by hitting one wrong keystroke.
Would open access mean an entrant would have to allow kink.com access to its network?
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Meanwhile, it’s difficult to buy into Google’s argument that it might not be able to compete with entrenched wireless players in the auction. After all, if Google really wants to get its hands on some spectrum, surely it can find a way to come up with the cash. Certainly Google’s heard of VC funding, bank loans, second mortgages on the house, etc.?
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3G Americas announced that work is continuing on the evolution of GSM technology. From their announcement: “While the standards work continues on the evolution of HSPA in Release 8, another area of focus in Release 8 is the introduction of a new OFDM-based technology through the Long Term Evolution (LTE) work item, often referred to as the Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (EUTRAN). In parallel, 3GPP has progressed on the standards development and definition of a new flatter-IP core network to support the EUTRAN through the System Architecture Evolution (SAE) work item, which has recently been renamed the Evolved Packet System (EPS) Architecture. The combination of LTE and SAE/EPS provides the long term vision for 3GPP to an all-IP, packet-only OFDM-based system expected to further improve performance by providing higher data rates, improved spectral efficiency and reduced latency.” No wonder the WiMAX standard was more quickly approved than the LTE standard.
