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Spectrum auction prompts calls for caps

...is looming. The auction for the Digital Dividend spectrum released by the switchover from analogue to digital broadcast is due to take place in 2012... Read more

17 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

EC to push for more mobile spectrum

...television to mobile broadband as the spectrum frees up through increased digital switchover Read more

13 September, 2010 by Jack Clark
Scheduling in Parallel Queues With Randomly Varying Connectivity and <endeca_term>Switchover</endeca_term> Delay

Scheduling in Parallel Queues With Randomly Varying Connectivity and Switchover Delay

...control problem for two parallel queues with randomly varying connectivity and server switchover delay between the queues. At each time slot the server decides either... Read more

12 January, 2011

London 4G trial reaches 150Mbps download speeds

...trial in London on Wednesday, the same day the UK digital TV switchover completed, making way for refarming of the 800MHz band of spectrum for... Read more

18 April, 2012

MoD to donate radio spectrum for Olympics

...for 4G mobile use. Unlicensed spectrum, and frequencies freed up by the switchover to digital TV broadcasting will also be used, said the Ofcom spokesman... Read more

23 January, 2012

End of analogue TV set for October 2012

...receive it, Digital UK said on Friday. The completion of the digital switchover, which began in 2008, brings an end to more than 70 years... Read more

14 October, 2011

Adobe shuts InMarket and AIR Marketplace

...said the decision to give developers just over a month for the switchover was "crazy". "I don't understand how you expect publishers will be... Read more

25 July, 2011 by David Meyer

Don't kill FM for broadband: Build a new internet

...it's been a long, expensive and complicated ride for the digital switchover for television: there are many times more radios than TVs in households... Read more

7 July, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Politicos push IPv6 web protocol

...of public- and private-sector bodies to get feedback on how the switchover from IPv4 is proceeding. The meeting was held to coincide with a... Read more

8 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Google, Facebook and others prepare for IPv6 test day

...from handsets to lightbulbs — require their own IP addresses. However, the switchover also requires a lot of testing, which is why Google and the... Read more

7 June, 2011

Cornwall to get real-world '4G' LTE trial

...the sort that is being cleared of broadcast use in the digital switchover. Such spectrum will, along with 2.6GHz, go up for auction early... Read more

25 May, 2011

DAB radio shoot-out at Westminster eForum

...about funding the roll-out of DAB. "No deal, no coverage, no switchover," he said. Harrison, Rogers and many others were at the Royal Overseas... Read more

5 April, 2011

China to overtake US in science research

...France and Japan by the start of next decade." The China-US switchover will happen within two years if its publication rates hold at the... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

Spectrum caps call as Digital Dividend auction looms

...is looming. The auction for the Digital Dividend spectrum released by the switchover from analogue to digital broadcast is due to take place next year... Read more

16 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

1.6 billion phones sold as Android grows 888.8%

Mobile phone sales grew by 31.8% to 1.6 billion units in 2010, according to figures that Gartner released today. Almost... Read more

9 February, 2011

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