If you have teenagers or grandchildren who are glued to their phones around the clock, it probably won’t surprise you to learn that the amount of wireless data traffic from Web browsing, streaming videos, tweeting, texting and checking Facebook is skyrocketing.
What you may not know is that all of those wireless texts, tweets and posts travel on invisible radio waves known as “spectrum.”
This spectrum or wireless capacity is a finite resource, meaning we can use it all up.
In fact, the Federal Communications Commission says we are less than a year from running out of wireless capacity.
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December 6, 2011
Governor Rick Perry has appointed Rolando Pablos of Olmos Park and reappointed Ken Anderson Jr. of Dallas to the Public Utility Commission (PUC). The three-member PUC encourages competition and customer choice in Texas, and ensures electric and telephone operations, services and rates are fair and reasonable.
Recently he told TEP that,”I look forward to working with my friend Robert Howden and his members to ensure that telephone and electric services remain reliable, plentiful and affordable in rural Texas.”
Pablos is an attorney in private practice and a senior advisor of SNR Denton. He is honorary consul to Spain, a member of the State Bar of Texas, chair of the San Antonio Free Trade Alliance, and a member and past board chair of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He is past chair of the Texas Racing Commission and City of San Antonio Small Business Advisory Committee, and a past board member of the Nueces River Authority and Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. He is also a former adjunct professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), a past member of the UTSA College of Business Dean’s Advisory Council, and a graduate of Leadership San Antonio. Pablos received a bachelor’s degree from St. Mary’s University, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at San Antonio, a master’s degree in hospitality management from the University of Houston, and a law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law. He is appointed for a term to expire Sept. 1, 2013. READ MORE +
by Cecilia Kang, Washington Post (Post Tech)
There are now more wireless devices being used in the United States than there are people, and Americans have doubled the amount of Internet data traffic they generate on smartphones, according to the trade group CTIA.
The number of mobile devices rose 9 percent in the first six months of 2011, to 327.6 million — more than the 315 million people living in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Wireless network data traffic rose 111 percent, to 341.2 billion megabytes, during the same period.
How is this possible? Many adults have more than one wireless device, which include smartphones, tablets, and wireless cards.
Analysts have also pointed to the shorter lifecycle of electronics in U.S. homes, a trend prompted mostly by the availability of high-speed wireless access and more affordable devices. Read full article on Washington Post +
Amarillo Globe-News
By Don Rogers
Over the past several years and more recently during the 82nd Texas legislative session, numerous voices have addressed the importance of education and its impact on the future of the Texas workforce and economy. As Texans, we need to do everything in our power to ensure the highest-quality education for our children.
With improved technology and thus increased communication, schools in rural areas of the state will be much better positioned to teach the critical skills students need to compete in a global market. The proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile will be a giant stride toward providing all Texas children quality educational opportunities and experiences. Every Texas student, whether they attend school in inner-city Dallas or in rural West Texas, should have access to modern technological
advancements, including high-speed wireless Internet.
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