Cities and towns are attempting to improve public safety by using special software that creates one big virtual wireless network out of incompatible wireless net infrastructures. Addison, Texas, as ...

The unlicensed portion of the U.S. radio frequency spectrum represents just one-tenth of 1% of the total bandwidth allocated for communications, but this thin slice has made the current boom in ...

Before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the federal government took its time addressing wireless communications issues, but now it's moving ahead at a faster clip on three major projects to move law ...

Today’s wireless networks are in a rut: Most radios that form the networks can only work on one frequency band of the spectrum. If that band is glutted, glitchy or jammed, the radios are useless.