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Revising the Storyline – Senate Leadership & New Industry Cooperation for the 5.9 GHz Band
A letter from private sector businesses and organizations to the Federal Communications Commission, and Departments of Transportation and Commerce, agreeing on a single set of principles to examine use of the 5.9 GHz band by unlicensed devices, arrives like the fall weather – crisp, clear and a reli…
Statement of Mary Brown on new FCC Rules on 911
The FCC today unanimously adopted new rules that will require improved location data to be delivered to 911 call centers from wireless phones. This decision is an important step forward in generating a dispatchable address from wireless phones located indoors, helping ensure that first responders ca…
Setting the record straight: Enterprises should not block personal Wi-Fi as a general rule
The FCC, acting on a petition from the hotel industry, has begun an interesting debate: when or whether hotels (or in principle, other enterprises) could ever block Wi-Fi on consumers’ personal devices, like smartphones. For the record, Cisco’s view is that — absent a security threat, attack,…
Two Groundbreaking Decisions that Make More Spectrum Available for Broadband and Wi-Fi
The FCC made two groundbreaking decisions today to put more radio spectrum to work delivering broadband connectivity to consumers — one which will improve 5 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi and the second that makes more licensed cellular spectrum available for wireless broadband. Taken together, these…
The New Spectrum Caucus: Bringing Focus to an Unseen, Indispensable Tool
Most Americans don’t know it, but radio spectrum has become an indispensable tool in our daily lives. Spectrum is the invisible link between our smart phones, tablets, laptops, fitbits, and other mobile devices to the Internet. It carries the video, voice, text and rich media that has transformed…
Statement by Mary Brown on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Decision on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Technology
Today’s decision by the US Department of Transportation to move forward with vehicle-to-vehicle safety technology for cars and light trucks is welcome news. Not only does this mark the first use of radio technology that will make our driving experience safer, but it is also the first use of the Inte…
The FCC’s Moment is Now
With Senate confirmation of incoming FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and Republican Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, the FCC is now back at full strength. A full plate of issues critical to the future of innovation and the national economy now awaits the five men and women who sit atop the agency. Most FCC…
Statement on New FCC Proceeding on Spectrum
“In opening this new proceeding, the FCC will conduct a rigorous and technical examination of whether Wi-Fi technologies can successfully use spectrum that is not in use today without causing harmful interference to existing, or future, radio systems that operate in the same frequency block. …
Global Mobile VNI Reveals Shift in Consumers Usage of Mobile Devices
Cisco’s 2013 Global Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) once again shows that mobile networking traffic continues to rise. Big picture: by 2017, global mobile data traffic will reach unprecedented levels of 11.1 exabytes per month. That’s the highest projection we’ve ever made in the Global Mob…