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April 6, 2007

Wee-Fi: Short Items for April 6

By Glenn Fleishman

700 MHz spectrum auctions still being finalized: Competing proposals address public-safety component. The sale of 60 MHz of the spectrum could raise $15b to $30b for the Treasury. So far, 24 MHz is allotted to public safety. Cyren Call’s proposal appears dead as it requires rewriting auction rules, and giving a single company managing a not-for-profit trust control over that segment. One synthesis proposal could take 12 MHz of the public-safety allotment and turn that over to a not-for-profit trust which would hire a commercial partner to build the network; commercial services on that band would have primary access except in emergencies.

Harvard, BBN Technologies plan to deploy weather, pollution sensors: The project has a very long timeframe—100 sensors deployed by 2011!—and would put 802.11a/b/g mesh nodes with  across Cambridge, Mass. The reporter hasn’t written about municipal networks before because he writes, “The system solves a constraint on previous wireless networks—battery life—by mounting each node on a municipal streetlamp where it draws power from city electricity.” Was this written in 1983?

Posted by Glennf at April 6, 2007 1:25 PM

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