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	<description>The business of telecom, internet, and entertainment law.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>TRS Providers Under Fire by the FCC</title>
		<link>http://whydom.com/2008/06/13/trs-providers-under-fire-by-the-fcc/</link>
		<comments>http://whydom.com/2008/06/13/trs-providers-under-fire-by-the-fcc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Video On the Net</category>

		<category>Telecom</category>

		<category>FCC</category>

		<category>Courts</category>

		<category>TRS</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On May 28, 2008, the FCC issued yet another declaratory order  relating to TRS (Telecommunications Relay Service) providing clarification of a 2007 order related to the use of customer information by TRS providers.    By issuing the clarification order, the Commission is seeking to avoid litigation initiated by TRS providers regarding their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AT&#038;T Granted Forbearance for Cost Allocation Accounting</title>
		<link>http://whydom.com/2008/05/12/att-granted-forbearance-for-cost-allocation-accounting/</link>
		<comments>http://whydom.com/2008/05/12/att-granted-forbearance-for-cost-allocation-accounting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
		
		<category>VoIP</category>

		<category>Telecom</category>

		<category>FCC</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On April 24, 2008, the FCC granted AT&#038;T&#8217;s request for forbearance pursuant to Section 160 of in WC Docket No. 07-21 and 05-342 from accounting rules that assigned costs for the regional bell operating companies (RBOC).  The FCC&#8217;s cost assignment accounting rules were created to ensure that the monopoly regulated side of the RBOC business was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FCC Bans Exclusive Telecommunications Services Agreements in Residential Buildings</title>
		<link>http://whydom.com/2008/04/08/fcc-bans-exclusive-telecommunications-services-agreements-in-residential-buildings/</link>
		<comments>http://whydom.com/2008/04/08/fcc-bans-exclusive-telecommunications-services-agreements-in-residential-buildings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Telecom</category>

		<category>FCC</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the matter entitled &#8220;Promotion of Competitive Networks in Local Telecommunications Markets&#8221; the FCC adopted an Order on March 19, 2008,in which the FCC banned carriers from entering into exclusive contracts to provide telecommunications services in residential apartment
buildings, and prohibited enforcement of existing contracts that contain exclusivity provisions.  The Commission found that exclusive agreements between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Femtocell Manufacturing is Gearing Up As A Massachusetts Vendor Announces Samsung Deal</title>
		<link>http://whydom.com/2007/11/14/femtocell-manufacturing-is-gearing-up-as-a-massachusetts-vendor-announces-samsung-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://whydom.com/2007/11/14/femtocell-manufacturing-is-gearing-up-as-a-massachusetts-vendor-announces-samsung-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Wireless</category>

		<category>Video On the Net</category>

		<category>Cell Phones</category>

		<category>Femtocell</category>

		<category>TMCnet</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A radio equipment provider out of Woburn, MA, Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS), announced today that Samsung “is leveraging” Skyworks&#8217; solutions for the Samsung femtocell.  The Skyworks products will enter “volume production.”  The Skyworks products listed in the press release include:  1)  a transmitter for dual-band CDMA;  2) a CDMA/PCS LNA for dual-band and tri-mode with low [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy for Protecting Intellectual Property in the New IMS World: Trade Secret or Patent?</title>
		<link>http://whydom.com/2007/10/04/strategy-for-protecting-intellectual-property-in-the-new-ims-world-trade-secret-or-patent/</link>
		<comments>http://whydom.com/2007/10/04/strategy-for-protecting-intellectual-property-in-the-new-ims-world-trade-secret-or-patent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Video On the Net</category>

		<category>Patents</category>

		<category>Telecom</category>

		<category>Trademarks</category>

		<category>Courts</category>

		<category>Copyright</category>

		<category>Intellectual Property</category>

		<category>FMC</category>

		<category>Femtocell</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For this post on IMS and FMC developers&#8217; intellectual property, I collaborated with my friend, Michael Dowd, a partner at Foley, Hoag, LLP, in Boston.  I provide counsel on licensing patents and trademarks, and Michael&#8217;s practice involves developing patenting strategies and resolving inventorship issues, software licensing disputes and trade secret misappropriation claims.  As we explain below, these are intellectual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sprint Scores with the First U.S. Femtocell Deployment in Denver and Indianapolis</title>
		<link>http://whydom.com/2007/09/21/sprint-scores-with-the-first-us-femtocell-deployment-in-denver-and-indianapolis/</link>
		<comments>http://whydom.com/2007/09/21/sprint-scores-with-the-first-us-femtocell-deployment-in-denver-and-indianapolis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Wireless</category>

		<category>Telecom</category>

		<category>WiMax</category>

		<category>WiFi</category>

		<category>Wireless Broadband</category>

		<category>Pulver</category>

		<category>VON</category>

		<category>Broadband</category>

		<category>FMC</category>

		<category>Cell Phones</category>

		<category>Femtocell</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On September 17, 2007, only 10 days after the Pulvermedia’s FMC conference in Chicago where Sprint discussed its future femtocell plans, Sprint formerly announced that it would immediately start offering its AIRAVE femtocell solution in Denver and Indianapolis.  Sprint included a cool marketing video about AIRAVE and femtocells on the Sprint web site. While two trials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sprint Leads the Way with Femtocell Deployment</title>
		<link>http://whydom.com/2007/09/12/sprint-leads-the-way-with-femtocell-deployment/</link>
		<comments>http://whydom.com/2007/09/12/sprint-leads-the-way-with-femtocell-deployment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
		
		<category>VoIP</category>

		<category>Video On the Net</category>

		<category>WiFi</category>

		<category>Pulver</category>

		<category>WSJ</category>

		<category>Broadband</category>

		<category>GigaOm</category>

		<category>FMC</category>

		<category>Cell Phones</category>

		<category>Femtocell</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Femtocells were all the rage at PulverMedia’s FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) Conference in Chicago last week.     One carrier in the U.S., Sprint, is leading the pack.   As of today, there are no femtocell rollouts in any geography.  There are a few trials, some announced and others not.   Telefonica, as reported in WSJ last week (9/6/2007), is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MediaFlo v DVB-H: Battling the European Commission</title>
		<link>http://whydom.com/2007/09/10/mediaflo-v-dvb-h-battling-the-european-commission/</link>
		<comments>http://whydom.com/2007/09/10/mediaflo-v-dvb-h-battling-the-european-commission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Wireless</category>

		<category>Video On the Net</category>

		<category>Wireless Broadband</category>

		<category>Cell Phones</category>

		<category>Mobile Video</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A lot has been happening with MediaFlo mobile video.   After considerable study,  the European Union’s Executive Commission decided on July 18, 2007, that it would recommend that EU countries use Europe’s home grown DVB-H (“Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds”) standard, and not the MediaFlo standard.    The EC decision may well have been driven by the fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Femtocell Residential Gateways: A $2 Billion Market?</title>
		<link>http://whydom.com/2007/08/28/femtocell-residential-gateways-a-2-billion-market/</link>
		<comments>http://whydom.com/2007/08/28/femtocell-residential-gateways-a-2-billion-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Wireless</category>

		<category>VoIP</category>

		<category>Telecom</category>

		<category>WiFi</category>

		<category>Broadband</category>

		<category>GigaOm</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Femtocells are going to move fast in the coming 12 months.  Wireless carriers will push the residential gateway from zero units to millions.  On August 13, 2007, Xchange Magazine reported that In-Stat is projecting that by 2011 there will be 40 million femtocells in use and 101 million users of femtocells.   Femtocells are micro cell phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Femtocells Head to Head with WiFi Dual Mode Phones</title>
		<link>http://whydom.com/2007/07/26/femtocells-head-on-head-with-wifi-dual-mode-phones-3/</link>
		<comments>http://whydom.com/2007/07/26/femtocells-head-on-head-with-wifi-dual-mode-phones-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Internet</category>

		<category>VoIP</category>

		<category>WiMax</category>

		<category>WiFi</category>

		<category>700MHz Auction</category>

		<category>WSJ</category>

		<category>Broadband</category>

		<category>GigaOm</category>

		<category>FMC</category>

		<category>Cell Phones</category>

		<category>Femtocell</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Femtocells could revolutionize cellular service in terms of diverting cell traffic off the network, providing great service in buildings and homes, increasing bandwidth speed, and, most significantly, increasing the service providers&#8217; footprints outside their licensed areas.  Cell phone service providers, like Sprint or T-Mobile, would be able use femtocells to off-load traffic to their customer’s provided [...]]]></description>
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