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The Telecom Digest for March 16, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 63 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Verizon to use Cable spectrum to boost LTE (Bill Horne)
Centurylink DSL Usage Caps Confuse Users (Bill Horne)
GPS industry reviews receiver standards as LightSquared regroups (Bill Horne)
What's the status of Flitephone? (Bill Horne)

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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:53:32 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon to use Cable spectrum to boost LTE 
Message-ID: <20130316015332.GA27225@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

Verizon plans to use the AWS spectrum it acquired from a consortium of
cable companies in the second half of 2013. The company's CTO, Nicola
Palmer, revealed in an interview with Fierce Wireless that the carrier
will complete its LTE rollout on the 700MHz spectrum by mid-year, and
plans to expand its LTE coverage with 5,000 new sites in 2013, with
more to follow in 2014.

http://bgr.com/tag/verizon/

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write me directly)

Everything changes, time takes its toll
Your folks fell in love: love's a very deep hole
   - Loudon Wainwright III




Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:37:19 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Centurylink DSL Usage Caps Confuse Users 
Message-ID: <20130316013719.GA25074@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

CenturyLink may be following the growing usage-based billing (UBB)
trend where service providers place usage caps on bandwidth
consumption, but the telco's policies are anything but clear for its
end users.

According to a thread in the Broadband Reports forum, a number of
subscribers said they were confused about the bandwidth caps.

Some users were given a warning they went over their cap, while other
"heavy users" got no warning or were told the service provider does
not implement usage caps.

http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/centurylink-dsl-usage-caps-cause-subscriber-confusion/2013-03-15

-or-

http://goo.gl/exk6E

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)

Ambition lights their cigarettes 
If they get out they don't look back
It's ten deserve and one who gets
So drink too much and dress in black
    - John Gorka




Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:40:34 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: GPS industry reviews receiver standards as LightSquared regroups  
Message-ID: <20130316034034.GA9287@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

GPS Industry Examines Receiver Standards, as LightSquared Ponders Next Move

AVIATION INTERNATIONAL NEWS - MARCH 2013

Since LightSquared's bankruptcy last fall, a common perception was
that the company had thrown in the towel and the GPS industry could
cease looking over its shoulder, breathe a sigh of relief and get back
to the navigation business. But that was not to be. In fact, what we
have seen is more an extended time-out than a cessation of hostil-
ities, as the combatants consolidated their positions. But neither 
has offered a cease-fire or surrender.

http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2013-03-01/gps-industry-examines-receiver-standards-lightsquared-ponders-next-move

-or-

http://goo.gl/yZ7yD

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write me directly)

Operator, please connect me to 1982
I need to make apology for what I didn't do
    - Randy Travis




Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:07:30 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: What's the status of Flitephone? 
Message-ID: <20130316040730.GA14790@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

Does anyone know the status of the 460 MHz Flitephone service for
air-to-ground phone calls? The flitephone.com and agras.org domains
appear to have been abandoned.

Bill

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email for direct replies)

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
   - Elton John






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