Skip to main content

/ Media Industries Project - Carsey Wolf Center/ Group items tagged Capacity

Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle

FCC Worried iPad Will Jam Networks - 0 views

www.radioink.com/Article.asp

iPad FCC Capacity Mobile Broadband Wireless Network Congestion

shared by Theresa de los Santos on 06 Feb 10 - Cached

Theresa de los Santos on 06 Feb 10

"Apple's iPad is due in late March, pending FCC approval, and on the FCC's official broadband blog, Director/Scenario Planning Phil Bellaria and Wireless Bureau Deputy Chief John Leibovitz say there may be trouble ahead if the device drives up demand for mobile broadband. They write that the iPad announcement on January 27 "set off a new round of reports of networks overburdened by a data flow they were not build to handle," saying the problems are reminiscent of the outages AOL users ran into when the then-dialup service went to unlimited use in 1996 -- problems that persisted for months."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Apple's iPad is due in late March, pending FCC approval, and on the FCC's official broadband blog, Director/Scenario Planning Phil Bellaria and Wireless Bureau Deputy Chief John Leibovitz say there may be trouble ahead if the device drives up demand for mobile broadband. They write that the iPad announcement on January 27 "set off a new round of reports of networks overburdened by a data flow they were not build to handle," saying the problems are reminiscent of the outages AOL users ran into when the then-dialup service went to unlimited use in 1996 -- problems that persisted for months."</div>

...

Cancel

1 - 1 of 1

Showing 20▼ items per page

Related searches