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FCC Certifies Carlson Wireless Technologies TV White Space Radio
January 16, 2014Carlson Wireless Technologies announced that the FCC has certified the company’s RuralConnect TV white space radio system for use with the Spectrum Bridge TV white spaces database.
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Industry
FCC Set to Unveil Rules for Rural Broadband Fund
November 3, 2011Federal regulators are set to reveal their plan for an overhaul of the $8 billion fund that subsidizes phone service in rural areas and for the poor, with the goal of redirecting the money toward broadband expansion. The Federal Communications Commission is also preparing to disclose new rules for the byzantine system that governs how phone companies pay each other for phone calls. It’s a system that, virtually everyone in the industry agrees, is outdated and leads to perverse schemes by carriers to stimulate certain kinds of phone traffic.
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