Faster Wi-Fi hot spots get green light
News Legislation to make 5GHz licence-exempt will be introduced in parliament on Tuesday, and will come into force three weeks later. According to the government, their decision to make 5GHz licence-exempt will help the growth of broadband in Britain.
[January 21, 2003, 8:19]
Wi-Fi slowed by interference, not congestion
News The report, Estimating the Utilisation of Key Licence-Exempt Spectrum Bands, was carried out by Mass Consultants and published on Wednesday by the telecommunications regulator. The 2.4GHz band is licence-exempt, meaning that manufacturers and users...
[May 11, 2009, 17:14]
Free spectrum boosts Irish broadband
News The company announced on Thursday that it will begin using the licence-exempt 5.7GHz band. Because both the 2.4GHz and the 5.7GHz bands are licence-exempt, Irish Broadband is free to set up the network without applying for a permit from the...
[October 2, 2003, 15:00]
FSF: Microsoft cannot evade GPLv3
News The Free Software Foundation has dismissed claims by Microsoft that it is exempt from provisions of GPLv3 and has vowed to make sure the software giant "respects our copyrights and complies with our licences".
[August 29, 2007, 11:24]
Wireless broadband threatened by licensing plan?
News Band C is currently primarily used for military radar, and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has refused to allow this spectrum to become licence-exempt. Several groups of local activists have already launched fixed broadband networks running at 2.4GHz...
[March 7, 2003, 9:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Ridiculous, of course: they're licence-exempt in the US where they do no harm whatsoever. It's just announced that it wants to make low-power FM transmitters legal to use without a licence, and that it's going to stop bothering to licence CBs as well.
[July 14, 2006, 19:15]
Wi-Fi hot spots to hit UK
News The current constraint on the use of licence-exempt bands for the provision of public access communications services should be removed as soon as possible," advises the report, which was prepared by a team led by Professor Martin Cave of Brunel...
[March 7, 2002, 15:04]
Internet telephony 'is not telecommunications'
News Davis wrote that VoIP provider Vonage is an "information service" rather than a "telecommunications service" and therefore exempt from state regulation. Six VoIP companies have until 22 October to get a California telephone licence or face...
[October 17, 2003, 16:10]
BBC Wonga
Blog Comment There is no mention of ending the practice of TV receiver licencing in Ofcom's recently released "Licence Exemption Framework Review" (http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/lefr/) even though the LEFR indicates that receive-only "stations...
[April 26, 2007, 9:27]
Microsoft struggles to work with open source
News The spokesman said he was not aware of any plans for Microsoft to reduce the royalty fees for free software organisations, or to exempt them from it. Microsoft has responded to some of the concerns about its proposed server interoperability licence...
[April 5, 2005, 18:20]
BBC Wonga
Blog It would be much fairer on the viewers to pay for the BBC from general taxation (as parts of it are - the World Service lives on postal orders from its uncle in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), but that's even more dangerous - it would be...
[February 21, 2007, 12:21]
ZigBee product flood defies sceptics
News ZigBee is a commercial standard, built on top of the IEEE's 802.15.4 standard and using the licence-exempt 2.4GHz waveband, but there are alternatives for low-power networks. Product announcements are flooding out for ZigBee, a low-power sensor...
[September 14, 2005, 14:15]
Google joins open source-patent network
News In particular, Google — along with other internet companies, such as Yahoo — is exempt from open-source licence provisions that require software modifications to be contributed back to the community. The Open Invention Network, an organisation...
[August 8, 2007, 9:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It must be exempt, surely? And so it has come to pass that before you embark with your porker on a lead for your morning constitutional, you must obtain and fill out the Pet Pig Walking Licence. Friday 21/11/2003
[November 21, 2003, 15:05]
NetSuite plans to go public
News Also, a controlling interest of 50 percent or more makes NetSuite exempt from having to adhere to certain corporate governance standards imposed by Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. In 2005, NetSuite signed a $2.5m (£1.2m) deal for a...
[July 3, 2007, 8:19]
Ofcom confirms licence-free RFID
News Communications watchdog Ofcom has announced that the spectrum used by RFID tags will be exempt from licences. In August, Ofcom opened up more spectrum to be used for RFID tags and transmitters. Today's announcement will mean any company can use the...
[November 10, 2005, 9:00]
UK moves closer to licensing security consultants
News The Private Security Industry (PSI) Bill Standing Committee this week voted against proposed amendments that would have made information security experts exempt from the scope of the legislation. Head of ebusiness for the Confederation of British...
[May 3, 2001, 14:45]
