US webcasters will face sharp rises in royalty fees that could be "fatal" to the nascent industry, a coalition of web broadcasters has claimed.
Note: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6562823.stm
The National Capital Region (NCR), which includes the District of Columbia and 18 other jurisdictions in Virginia and Maryland, will be the first in the nation to establish a public-safety regional wireless network at 700 MHz, according to a release yesterday. NCR has competitively selected Alcatel-Lucent as its equipment infrastructure vendor to deploy the new Regional Wireless Broadband Network (RWBN). It will provide a seamless interoperable, redundant wireless broadband network of networks with the capacity to transmit video, data and voice communications with peak speeds of nearly 5 Mbps using only a paired 1.25 MHz channel.
Note: March 2, 2007 News Release
IPv6 Summit Inc., a subsidiary of Innofone.com Inc. announced this week that the upcoming Federal IPv6 Summit in Reston, VA from May 17-19 will feature a panel of crisis response experts that will discuss how the New Internet can enable first responders -- law enforcement agencies, firefighters, federal agents, National Guard units -- to finally all communicate with each other, something they were unable to do during 9/11 and after Hurricane Katrina.