In the evolving conversation about the “Internet of Things” — the growth of networked everyday objects and the data they generate — analysts tend to focus on business opportunity, or the security risks, or the potential for making our cities smarter.
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By Mike Dano
The long, strange trip of consolidation in the wireless industry has produced four major, nationwide carriers–and very few other players of note. Today, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile US and Sprint stand as the nation’s Tier 1 wireless carriers, and combined they control roughly 90 percent of the U.S. wireless market.
But that has not always been the case.
Jerald Fritz of ONE Media says if broadcasters can submit a petition to the commission this summer, the FCC may be able to conduct a rulemaking and give its blessing late this year or early next. That means TV stations could be on the air with the standard sometime in 2017, he adds.
via Fritz: Time To Press FCC To Adopt ATSC 3.0 | TVNewsCheck.com.
Why move to ATSC 3.0? There are many answers to that question
Instead of looking at broadcasting as a antiquated service that should be stripped for spectrum, the FCC needs to start seeing it for what it is — an elegantly simple and inexpensive means of keeping every citizen in the national conversation. Instead of imposing burdensome new rules or tightening up restrictive old rules, the FCC should look for ways to lighten the regulatory load and strengthen the medium.
via FCC Needs A Broadcast Attitude Adjustment | TVNewsCheck.com.
CEO David Smith: “By July, maybe August, we should know essentially what the future platform will look like, what business platforms we can roll off that will look like. It’s the first time in 20 years I’ve seen the industry line up to control its own destiny.”
via Sinclair’s Smith Sees Next-Gen TV Progress | TVNewsCheck.com.
The ATSC 3.0 Technology Group 3 has approved technology proposed by One Media and China’s National Engineering Research Center as a critical part of ATSC 3.0’s modulation and error coding component known as the physical layer. “At the end of the day, what we have is a wireless, data-agnostic IP pipeline,” says Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Mark Aitken. “That means the bits that flow across the Internet can flow across our spectrum.”
via First Step To ATSC 3.0 Signals Big Changes | TVNewsCheck.com.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s influential search engine has hit a tipping point in technology’s shift to smartphones. More search requests are now being made on mobile devices than on personal computers in the U.S. and many other parts of the world.
via Googling on mobile devices surpasses PCs in US for 1st time.
French broadcast services company TDF and Italian channel Rai have launched the first field trials of LTE-A+ broadcast from high-power television stations in Paris, France, and Aosta, Italy, reportsTelecompaper.com on April 14, 2015. The joint project, based on the original “Tower Overlay” idea developed and implemented by Technische Universitat Braunschweig (Germany) in 2013 involves contributions by US company GatesAir and is supported by Germany’s IRT and France’s Expway.
A way to let cellular operators share Wi-Fi frequencies without jamming up Internet service is now in the spotlight at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
On Tuesday, the agency asked for public comments on LTE-U (LTE-Unlicensed), which Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA, SK Telecom and other operators are exploring as a way to get more spectrum for better service. The FCC wants to know how LTE-U might affect Wi-Fi and other services. Comments are due June 11.
via FCC asks how LTE can share the airwaves with Wi-Fi | PCWorld.
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