Launch wireless broadband network in the U.S.

Consumers and businesses in the U.S. could have more connection options next year with the launch of a new broadband wireless network that seeks to compete with the phone.

Harbinger Capital Partners The company on Tuesday introduced its new wireless network LightSquared, which should cover 92% of the country's population by 2015.

But there are still several legal and financial obstacles to overcome. And another thing is that at first the service will not offer LightSquared conventional mobile phone calls, but only exchange of information. You can make phone calls, on the broadband wireless and data connections, but the technology has not reached its full maturity.

Although this represents a different proposition LightSquared in the wireless market. Only two more companies, Verizon Wireless and AT & T Inc., have concrete plans to build nationwide networks using the same technology for fourth generation (4G) that would LightSquared.

Sprint Nextel Corp., through its subsidiary, Clearwire Corp., is building a third network with a different 4G technology that may have less support from equipment manufacturers.
Consumers do not buy directly LightSquared service. Instead, the company will sell access to other companies, which in turn resold. LightSquared seeks to attract cable TV companies, telephone companies do not have access to the wireless broadband network and sellers who want to offer wireless service under its own brand.

The new wireless briadband network

Dan Hays, telecommunications specialist at consulting firm PRTM, said LightSquared "could provide another opportunity for major brands and retailers such as Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Office Depot to enter the wireless market as service providers consumers. "
LightSquared plans to begin service in the second half of 2011 in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver and Baltimore.

Nokia Siemens Networks will build, will maintain and operate the network under a contract for 7,000 million dollars and eight years, said LightSquared. Nokia Siemens is a company created by Nokia Corp. of Finland and Siemens AG of Germany.

FCC seeks more frequencies for wireless broadband

Federal regulators expect to find more frequencies for wireless broadband services by reallocating some that were used for television signals and other services.

Under the terms of a long-awaited proposal, outlined on Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC, for its acronym in English), companies that own television and radio spectrum would surrender voluntarily part of this and would share the profits in government auctions , to give those frequencies to the cellular companies.

Wireless operators have asked for more spectrum in a time when consumers check their email, update their Facebook social network and watch videos from your cell phone. The broadband services are already suffering from a bottleneck in some markets, and options for further strain next generation wireless networks.
"While the potential of mobile broadband is unlimited, it is not their supply of oxygen," said the chairman of the FCC, Julius Genachowski, in a speech to the New America Foundation in Washington. "The spectrum, our frequencies, it really is the oxygen of the mobile broadband service. If there is not enough, mobile broadband will lack the power it needs to thrive."

Finding more wireless spectrum will also be an important part of the FCC plan to bring affordable connections and high speed Internet to all Americans, particularly in rural areas of the country, Genachowski said. That plan, ordered by the economic stimulus initiative last year, come to Congress next month.

Genachowski said the broadband plan would include a proposal to finance wireless networks using the Federal Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes telephone service in poor and rural areas, thanks to a charge on long distance calls.
The FCC plan would set a goal to release 500 megahertz of wireless spectrum in the next decade. This would include the spectrum license issued by companies through government auctions.

It also would offer not subject to license spectrum for all, as the frequencies used for Wi-Fi wireless networks. The wireless industry is currently about 600 megahertz of spectrum available for use subject to license.
Genachowski said that the spectrum used for TV broadcasts is particularly attractive to broadband, because these frequencies have not been used efficiently, but have "potentially worth billions of dollars." The broadcasters have about 300 megahertz of spectrum, but mainly used to meet 10% of U.S. households that still rely only on the open-signal TV.