With knowledge, however, otherwise worthless matter and radiation turns into petroleum, microchips, and radio spectrum.
The technology uses gaps in radio spectrum, called 'white spaces', which exist in between frequency bands.
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Chinese authorities have dragged their heels issuing radio spectrum and licenses for next-generation (3G) wireless services.
The development of satellite-based mobile-telephony is creating demand for new bits of the radio spectrum.
This is what the government is about to do with another scarce, publicly owned commodity: Radio spectrum.
Suddenly, he had the rarest of commodities: national radio spectrum with which to build a data network.
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Google has announced experiments that will allow it to test and commercialize unused parts of the radio spectrum.
The longer-range solution is for the federal government toc re-purpose unused and underused radio spectrum for mobile broadband purposes.
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To goose a similar boom in wireless, the FCC has loosened regulations relating to the radio spectrum, a limited resource.
Moves to charge for the use of Guernsey's radio spectrum could result in customers paying more, phone companies have warned.
For now Clearwire operates on a swath of radio spectrum that had been licensed for use in schools and churches.
Currently EE is the the only UK operator that can run 4G services over those parts of the radio spectrum.
That functionality is necessary because GSM works on a different radio spectrum in the U.S. than in the rest of the world.
It is also supporting a proposed congressional bill known as the Radio Spectrum Inventory Act as a way of inventorying available spectrum.
Ghai adds that he is encouraged by the recent release of additional 5 GHz radio spectrum by the FCC for Wi-Fi networks.
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The snag is that in some countries, including America, radio spectrum ideal for mobile video and data communications is in short supply.
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Wayne Perry, his main dealmaker on radio spectrum, joined in 1975.
To date such a network has not emerged due to a combination of a lack of vision and a lack of radio spectrum.
Many governments had seen the crunch coming, said the report, and had freed radio spectrum they were now auctioning off to help operators cope.
It does this by licensing temporary monopolies over parts of the radio spectrum while ensuring that a number of networks compete in this market.
No matter what part of the normal radio spectrum you pick, you will find some material that will reduce, deflect or block the signal entirely.
All this networking was made possible by a 1999 grant from Congress to the auto industry of 75 megahertz of radio spectrum for safety use.
The medical community is all smiles today, because the FCC has decided to allocate a chunk of radio spectrum for potentially life-altering wireless devices.
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As wireless devices continue to proliferate, radio spectrum becomes more valuable.
And the price tney pay should not be determined by what they wish to pay: but by the value of that alternative use as radio spectrum.
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To cope with the data tsunami Ofcom has drawn up plans to release more radio spectrum and make the industry's use of existing spectrum more efficient.
In its consultation document, the regulator proposes to "liberalise" all parts of the radio spectrum used for those 2G and 3G services so they can be used to support 4G.
The 4G auction will sell chunks of radio spectrum to support future mobile services, which will allow users to download data such as music and videos at much faster speeds.
In a little known battle in the UK, both Google and Microsoft are competing for white spaces, gaps in the radio spectrum between TV, radio and mobile.
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