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The Telecom Digest for December 15, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 293 : "text" Format
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G.O.P. Balks at Plan to Add Airwaves for Mobile Internet and Wi-Fi (Monty Solomon)
Google lets iOS developers replace Apple map data with its own (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:25:27 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: G.O.P. Balks at Plan to Add Airwaves for Mobile Internet and Wi-Fi
Message-ID: <p06240872ccf084a7e8dd@[10.0.1.5]>

G.O.P. Balks at Plan to Add Airwaves for Mobile Internet and Wi-Fi

By EDWARD WYATT
December 12, 2012

WASHINGTON - House Republicans warned the Federal Communications 
Commission on Wednesday against "giving away" scarce airwaves that 
they said could produce up to $19 billion in proceeds if they were 
instead auctioned to telecommunications companies for use in mobile 
broadband networks.

The remarks, which came at a House communications subcommittee 
hearing, took aim at one of the top priorities of Julius Genachowski, 
the F.C.C. chairman: to make available more unlicensed airwaves, or 
spectrum, to open congested mobile broadband networks and to use in 
Wi-Fi hot spots.

In September, the F.C.C. proposed freeing 12 to 20 megahertz of 
spectrum for those unlicensed uses. The unlicensed space on the 
electromagnetic spectrum would also be used as "guard bands." Those 
are areas that border segments of airwaves that are used by cellphone 
companies, broadcasters and other communications entities; their 
purpose is to limit interference from transmissions on nearby 
airwaves.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/business/republicans-tell-fcc-not-to-give-away-airwaves.html




Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:29:44 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Google lets iOS developers replace Apple map data with its own
Message-ID: <p06240875ccf0858b1e3f@[10.0.1.5]>

Google lets iOS developers replace Apple map data with its own

New SDK gives access to vector data, but not turn-by-turn navigation.

by Chris Foresman
Dec 13 2012
Ars Technica

In addition to releasing its own Google Maps app for iOS, Google is 
now offering up its improved, vector-based maps to iOS developers 
looking for an alternative to Apple's at-times flawed data. 
Developers can essentially replace Apple's native MapKit APIs with 
the Google Maps SDK for iOS, though integrating turn-by-turn 
navigation is still verboten.

Apple's native MapKit APIs originally gave iOS developers native 
access to the 2D map data supplied by Google in previous versions of 
iOS. However, Apple claimed that it needed to build its own mapping 
database in order to give iOS's Maps app improved features like 
efficient, high-resolution vector data, 3D "flyover" views, 
turn-by-turn navigation, and more. Apple replaced the backend mapping 
data in iOS 6 with its own data, and those changes were passed down 
to MapKit, and hence any app that used MapKit.

...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/12/google-lets-ios-developers-replace-apple-map-data-with-its-own/






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