Ofcom sounds a trumpet for spectrum trading
News Advocates of the "spectrum commons" approach believe that spectrum should not be treated as a piece of property but as a public space that is subject only to minimal restrictions. Communications regulator Ofcom has confirmed that companies will be...
[August 6, 2004, 13:10]
UK poised to legalise faster Wi-Fi hot spots
News It is understood that legislation will be introduced in the House of Commons next week that will open up the 5GHz band of the radiocommunications spectrum to be used to operate wireless local area networks.
[January 17, 2003, 16:45]
Ultrawideband - nice words, shame about the action
Talkback If anything, you could arguably consider UWB a massive tragedy of the commons experiment - not a market failure. The success or failure of UWB by use of spectrum has little to do with free markets or capitalism.
[June 1, 2005, 4:20]
Message in a hamper
Blog Conservative shadow minister for justice David Burrowes in October launched an early day motion in the House of Commons petitioning for McKinnon to be tried in the UK, which has now been signed by eighty MPs.
[March 6, 2009, 14:28]
PM comment boosts McKinnon's UK-sentence hopes
News During prime minister's questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday, David Burrowes, the Conservative MP for Enfield, Southgate asked: "Will the prime minister ensure that extradition arrangements are changed so that UK citizens such as.
[November 20, 2008, 13:03]
Government backs industry broadband strategy
News In a written statement to the House of Commons, e-minister Stephen Timms said: "Broadband in the UK has really taken off over the last year. Broadband local area networks, typically using a strain of the 802.11 standard, are a way of cheaply...
[March 21, 2003, 9:34]
MPs call for Nasa hacker to serve UK sentence
News Burrowes introduced the motion after attempting to table a debate on the extradition in the House of Commons on 16 October. McKinnon was recently diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum.
[November 3, 2008, 12:10]
Web giants attack Digital Economy Bill
News Now it has had its second reading in the Lords, it will go through committee and report stages prior to a third reading, before being introduced to the House of Commons. The Digital Economy Bill was outlined in the Queen's Speech in November, and...
[December 2, 2009, 16:46]
The Wealth of Networks review
Reviews Benkler underlines this point with the following gesture: The Wealth of Networks was released, simultaneously with the print publication, onto the internet as a PDF under a Creative Commons licence. In one book, he has tied together many trends and...
[April 24, 2007, 15:10]
