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Despite dissent in some quarters of the television and cable broadcasting community, the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday voted to allow the use of open broadcast television spectrum to provide broadband data and other services to consumers and businesses. However, the wireless devices needed to implement those services are not yet available. The FCC’s order appears to take into account incumbent broadcasters’ concerns that these new devices will trample on their spectrum.

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FCC Opens Gate to White Spaces Playground

Maybe everybody involved in the debate over wireless spectrum white spaces should give each other a little, well, space, if the acrimonious comments broadcasting from Washington, D.C., this week are any indication. Google cofounder Larry Page contributed to the high-stakes static during a speech Wednesday sponsored by the Wireless Innovation Alliance, which is lobbying the Federal Communications Commission to allow unlicensed access to the areas between television broadcast frequencies on the spectrum — the so-called white spaces.

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Google’s Page Makes Noise Over ‘Rigged’ White Space Test

T-Mobile USA has been beefing up its nascent 3G mobile wireless services network, announcing that 3G will be ready to run in 21 markets by the middle of next month and will reach 27 major markets by the end of this year. The company says the planned expansion will deliver T-Mobile 3G services to more than two-thirds of the company’s current data customers — but T-Mobile will continue to expand throughout 2009. T-Mobile’s UMTS/HSDPA high-speed data network is currently available across 13 major metropolitan markets.

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T-Mobile Paves 3G Freeway for Android

Delta Air Lines said Tuesday it will offer broadband wireless Internet access on its entire domestic mainline fleet by the middle of next year. The Atlanta-based company said WiFi service will be offered for a fee to customers traveling throughout the continental U.S. The nation’s No. 3 carrier is partnering with Aircell, an airborne communications provider, to install the network on Delta’s domestic fleet of more than 330 aircraft. The system will allow Delta customers traveling with WiFi enabled devices — such as laptops, smartphones and PDAs — to access the Internet while in flight.

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Delta to Take WiFi Sky-High

Gathering momentum and now moving swiftly, a host of companies are progressing with efforts to develop and prove so-called fourth generation, or 4G, wireless technologies. Eagerly anticipated, what exactly constitutes 4G is yet to be determined. Though this process is driven in the main by international industry associations, no one group’s efforts span all the evolving technology and international definitions and standards that will go into defining and applying it.

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The Road to 4G: WiMax Leads the Way