Consultants and lawyers also may help craft business plans, determining, for instance, how particular licenses complement a firm's projects or other spectrum holdings, how much a particular slice of spectrum is worth and what an appropriate bidding strategy would be.
ZigBee is a protocol that works on the 802.15.4 spectrum (WiFi is also known as 802.11 for its slice of spectrum.) As a short-range, low-power protocol, ZigBee is suited for two-way communications among small devices, and can be used to build self-organizing networks of devices.
But force the owners of a nationwide slice of that spectrum to make their service open to anyone selling a device that meets certain specifications.
But thanks to mismanagement by the FCC, only a small slice of the electromagnetic spectrum is available for the flexible, exclusive licenses needed to provide cell phone service.
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Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ), which develops chips and other wireless technology, owns a slice of 700 Mhz spectrum, which it uses for its mobile TV application, mediaFLO.
What we need is Congress to get to work, to agree to compromise, to agree to do the work of the American people, instead of satisfying some narrow slice of the political spectrum, so that we can reduce our deficit in a responsible way that does not heap the burden on single -- small segments of society.
It started as a small local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 25, 000-kilometer fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and an Internet access provider.
It started as a small-scale local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 16, 000-mile fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and a major Internet access provider.
His venture began in a Jamaican restaurant in 1990 when he jotted down on a napkin plans for informing Africans about AIDS. The Ethiopian-born lawyer and son of a diplomat then set out for a conference in Torremolinos, Spain, where he convinced 127 countries to grant him 25 MHz of the L-band, a slice of the 1000 MHz spectrum.
He then went to a conference in Torremolinos, Spain, where he convinced 127 countries to grant him 25 MHz of the L-band, a slice of the 1000-MHz spectrum.
By comparison, Verizon holds 22MHz of 700MHz spectrum in many markets, so these guys are working with a decent-sized slice of the pie here.
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