Compared to wireless access technologies, wireline access technologies give better performance in terms of bandwidth as well as quality of service but they lack ubiquity and affordability. Wireless networks can be deployed much faster with less initial investment and costs of service...

Continuous monitoring of production of yarn is an important process requirement for good productivity in a ring frame machine in textile industry. So, collecting the data on yarn breakages using an appropriate Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been taken as a research problem in this work. The...

As governments and firms rush to third generation '3G' mobile telecommunications, this article considers three key problems: the conflict over 3G standards, which pits European GSM equipment against a US group; the patchwork of 3G regulation across Europe; and the mechanism for awarding licences....

The initial wireless phone industry in the United States had many competitors, but due to mergers and acquisitions the industry has become highly consolidated. This paper documents the history of the consolidation. More importantly, I use the geographic path of consolidation to distinguish...

As this Article demonstrates, most experts agree that the electromagnetic spectrum is a vital natural resource. Yet European and U.S. governments fail to treat it as such. The author looks at contributions made by two scholars, Ronald Coase's public trust doctrine and Garrett Hardin's tragedy of...

Wireless communication is rapidly growing, making it possible to design wireless network systems that can constantly collect, analyze, evaluate, and validate our environment to get more control of the factors that influence it. With over a decade of intensive research and development, wireless...

The increasing prevalence of unsecure Wireless Internet connections presents unique legal challenges for criminal and civil defendants and government prosecutors alike. The vast majority of home and corporate wireless networks are used without security measures. As a result, anyone with a laptop...

In POLICY BULLETIN NO. 54, I compared fixed broadband speeds across thousands of U.S. and foreign cities. My analysis revealed that average download speeds for fixed broadband are typically faster in the United States and often materially so, and U.S. upload speeds are comparable to other...

The inaugural guest academic article for the University of Chicago Business Law Review Blog discusses how Millennial and GenZ investors can set in motion a social movement with disruptive effects on the current corporate governance paradigm. It refers to Millennial and GenZ investors as...

The Federal Communications Commission’s Notice of Inquiry in GN 09-157 Fostering Innovation and Investment in the Wireless Communications Market is a significant event at an opportune moment. Wireless communication has already radically changed the way that not only Americans, but people the...