Disqus
There’s nothing like a little election season rush to light the fires under bureaucratic feet. Rather than take their sweet time in reviewing the Sprint/Clearwire and Verizon/Alltel wireless mergers (like they usually do), the FCC has announced that they are fast-tracking the review process and hopes to have decisions ready by the end of 2008. That’s good news for fans of WiMAX networks, as Sprint’s just-launched XOHM network will need Clearwire’s help in going nationwide by year’s end.
Sprint has been battling to get their merger approved in the face of opposition from AT&T and the Rural Cellular Association.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin says that the agency will try to clear both the Sprint/Clearwire and Verizon/Alltel merger that have been in held up for regulatory approval for months.
[Via: InformationWeek]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
