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Wireless AMBER Alert program shutting down at end of year

, Dec 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

The coalition of groups and government agencies that brought us Wireless AMBER Alerts announced today that the program will be ending at the end of the year. AMBER Alerts, as most you already know, aim to alert the public to recent abductions in an effort to get kidnapped children home safely as quickly as possible. Never fear though, as Wireless AMBER Alerts aren't going away, they're just being rolled into a new program called Wireless Emergency Alerts, which was launched earlier this year. Read The Full Story

Dish gets FCC thumbs up on its wireless aspirations

, Dec 12th 2012 Discuss [1]

Dish Network has been pining to launch its own wireless service, which it will likely advertise in its semi-recently-acquired Blockbuster stores. Thus far, its plans have been on hold pending FCC approval, which it was granted today. This comes a week after rumor spread that Sprint had requested a partnership with Dish, which is looking to fire up its own 4G LTE network. Read The Full Story

FCC tells FAA to relax on strict gadget rules during flights

, Dec 7th 2012 Discuss [8]

The Federal Aviation Association (FAA) has been reconsidering their ban on the use of electronics during flights for a while now with no real progress, but the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is stepping in to urge the FAA to chill out on their strict no-gadget policy during takeoff and landing. Read The Full Story

Four big carriers plan to roll out text-to-911 by 2014

, Dec 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

The big four wireless carriers, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile, have reached an agreement to enable text-to-911 service in 2014. The agreement has been shipped off to the FCC, which will discuss the matter on December 12. While the agreement won't bring the ability to text emergency services to all wireless users by 2014, it will give the service a large boost in that direction. Read The Full Story

Federal court slaps Verizon: Upholds FCC data roaming regulations

, Dec 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

Wireless carrier Verizon Wireless had previously argued that FCC regulations on data roaming imposed traditional landline telephone obligations on data services illegally. The FCC regulations stipulated that Verizon and its competitors had to offer data roaming to their competitors on a nondiscriminatory basis. Verizon Wireless took the FCC to a federal appeals court trying to have the regulations overturned. Read The Full Story

Netgear NeoTV Prime Google TV box leaks

, Dec 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

The surreptitious rise of next-gen Google TV boxes continues, with the Netgear NeoTV Prime GTV100 following ASUS' Qube in slipping through the FCC and then into the wild courtesy of some leaked prototype shots. The NeoTV Prime is a compact STB with a dual-sided remote, offering a touchpad and streaming media shortcuts on one side, and a QWERTY thumb-board on the reverse. Read The Full Story

ASUS Qube arrives at the FCC, offers Google TV

, Nov 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

It looks like ASUS is getting into the Google TV market with the ASUS Qube, which has popped up over at the FCC. The Qube with be a dongle that can be plugged into a device via USB to offer Google TV functionality. While details are sparse at the moment, some Google Play apps hint at how the Qube will work. Read The Full Story

FCC considers making carriers report their disaster performance quality

, Nov 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

In light of Hurricane Sandy and other recent natural disasters, the FCC is considering having carriers provide information on how well their networks performed in a disaster. The requirement would only concern major natural disasters, and will provide consumers with relevant information, such as how their carrier performed compared with other carriers. The issue is one of several slated for discussion during several hearings the FCC has scheduled throughout 2013. Read The Full Story

AT&T to pay $700,000 settlement over data plan debacle

, Nov 6th 2012 Discuss [12]

It all started when AT&T stated that current pay-as-you-go customers could stay on the plan as the carrier shifted new customers to a mandatory monthly data plan. Some customers, however, were switched over to the monthly plan upon moving to a new address or changing phones under warranty. Now the company has agreed to settle the issue for $700,000. Read The Full Story

HTC DROID DNA phablet clears the FCC

, Nov 5th 2012 Discuss [7]

Earlier today, we reported that HTC's DROID DNA phablet, which features a 5-inch 1080p display, was rumored to be released on December 6 at Verizon. Lending those rumors more credence, the DROID DNA has cleared the FCC, which dubbed it the HTC6435LVW. This comes after last week's image leak showing off the phone from Twitter user @evleaks. Read The Full Story

Stolen cellphone database goes live in the US

, Oct 31st 2012 Discuss [4]

Cell phones, smartphones in particular, have this unfortunate combination of high cost and ease-of-theft. Once a cell phone is snatched, it can easily be used by swapping out the SIM card with a new one, at which point identifying the phone as stolen becomes all but impossible. To help curb this problem, a database of stolen cell phones has been launched in the U.S. Read The Full Story

FCC provides Hurricane Sandy cellphone disruption data

, Oct 31st 2012 Discuss [1]

Yesterday it was reported that 25% of cell phone towers in 10 states had been knocked out by Hurricane Sandy, as well as 25% of cable services, and a small number of emergency call centers. Now, according to the FCC, that number has dropped a few percentage points. Homes without cable TV and wired broadband is now "well under 20-percent." Read The Full Story
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