Word: bandwidths
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...buzz kill - the Roku folks say it can happen when your broadband speed drops below 1 megabit per second. (My standard Comcast connection is usually above 2 megabits per second, but congestion, I guess, happens. Either that or Comcast, which has long been suspected of throttling back on bandwidth hogs, is punishing...
...legislation marks a cynical attempt by the RIAA and the states to focus on college students rather than other offenders because of the ease with which enforcement can be outsourced to universities. More importantly, preserving the structure of current copyright law, a relic of the times before fast bandwidth made worldwide music sharing a possibility, is not worth the costs of enforcement. The current draconian restrictions on music sharing are too cumbersome and simply incompatible with age in which electronic transfer of media is the norm. This outdated business model relies on album sales, with radio play, concert tours...
...cost to the cell phone carrier. Studies have shown that cell operators have a profit margin of about 90 percent for text messages, which is more than twice the profit for phone calls. Costs to operators are miniscule because SMS technology is over 20 years old and the network bandwidth taken up by text messages is tiny relative to a phone call. With usage increasing, the big players in the telecom industry don’t have to collude to keep raising prices. Verizon recently announced prices as high as 20 cents for users without a pricing plan...
Once TV broadcasters have vacated the 700 MHz band for more efficient digital signals, which take up less bandwidth, the FCC will repurpose the surplus analog spectrum for wireless devices. The auction consists of five blocks of licenses to be sold off in pieces - ranging from rights to various regional networks to sprawling nationwide ones - each set at a minimum bid. The process could take weeks or even months and is likely to pull in about $15 or $20 billion for the federal government. Carriers wishing to offer new wireless services are currently running into spectrum shortages - one reason...
JetBlue is not offering unfettered access to the Web - at least not yet - so no googling your in-flight neighbor. That would require a lot more bandwidth at a much higher cost. Instead, the service turns the plane into a flying Wi-Fi hot spot for mobile devices. When a plane reaches 10,000 feet, three WiFi access points hidden in the cabin's ceiling are activated, so that most wireless devices with Flash browsers or Wi-Fi-enabled laptops can connect to Yahoo Messenger or Mail, which can also be used to send text messages to mobile phones. (Sorry...