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Xperia Play goes back to the FCC, this time with GSM (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Uh oh, Verizon’s got itself into a bit of hot water with the old FCC. An outage during a snowstorm last month has reportedly resulted in a whopping 10,000 calls to 911 not being connected by the big red carrier. That would be bad enough in itself, but the less-than-pleased Communications Commission also notes that the emergency services that missed out on these calls were not alerted to the connectivity failure — in fact, Maryland’s Montgomery County officers were the ones to inform Verizon of the fault it was having, which was then promptly repaired within 15 minutes. The FCC is now curtly asking the network to check its entire footprint for similar vulnerabilities — as the January events were apparently “not unique” — and to propose remedial actions and monitoring systems to prevent it happening again.

Verizon dropped 10,000 emergency calls during January snowstorm in Maryland, FCC finds it ‘alarming’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The net neutrality debate was sadly destined to be swallowed up by left-right posturing once the FCC voted 3-2 to impose a compromise set of access rules on the ISP industry, and it appears the ensuing political theater is nearing its zenith: the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted yesterday to block funding for the FCC’s proposed rules. We call it theater only because it’s largely for show — in order to take effect, the budget amendment would have to pass the Democratically-controlled Senate and be signed by the President, and neither of those things is likely to happen. What’s more, the actual rules passed by the FCC have already been challenged in the courtroom by Verizon and MetroPCS, so it’s not like the industry needs any additional help at the moment. Still, there’s a part of us that’s happy this issue is even being talked about at the highest levels, rather than being left to languish in administrative rulemaking hell like so many other FCC initiatives — and we have a feeling we’ll be talking about this for a long time to come.

House of Representatives votes to block net neutrality originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You may not be able to read the model number on that miniscule label, but you’re looking at a cross section of the Samsung GT-I9020A — colloquially known as the Nexus S for AT&T — which just made its debut at that Ellis Island of wireless devices, the FCC authorization database. Sure enough, it’s sporting the requisite 850 / 1900MHz WCDMA bands for the American carrier (though it could just as easily appear at Canada’s big three) as well as Bluetooth, single-band 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, and 13.56MHz for RFID. In case you’re curious, the latter indicates that the curvy handset will almost certainly keep its NFC capabilities. So, Samsung… are you about ready to tell us about that GT-i9023?

Samsung Nexus S revisits the FCC, this time with bands for AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s not exactly full disclosure — you won’t get to see a user’s manual, for instance, or those gritty FCC lab external photos that we always love — but a new device passed by Palm through the feds’ systems in the past 24 hours is pretty clearly the Veer judging by the mentions of a sliding mechanism, the lack of CDMA, and the fact that we know the Veer is the next webOS phone to hit the market. Now, here’s where it gets a little interesting: this filing was definitely made by Palm, not HP, which leads you to wonder just how far into the process the company got on its next-gen handsets before HP decided to effectively kill off the Palm brand altogether. In case you’re wondering, the filing refers to an internal model number is P160UNA, indicating a model P160 in the North American UMTS configuration (for the record, the North American unlocked Pre 2 is the P102UNA). If you ever see a P160EWW in the system, that’d likely mean that a CDMA Veer were in the works — but seriously, we wouldn’t get our hopes up.

HP Veer shows its cute little face in FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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