Wireless Broadband Network For Launch Next Year

Wireless Broadband Network For Launch Next Year: New York:American consumers and businesses can get more choices in wireless service, starting next year with the launch of a new wireless broadband network, which aims at ensuring competition existing telephone companies.

Private Investment Company, Harbinger Capital Partners on Tuesday revealed details of the launch of its wireless network, LightSquared, which should cover 92 percent of the population by 2015.

But there are financial and regulatory barriers to overcome. And in another wrinkle, LightSquared will not initially offer regular services to mobile phone, just data. You can send phone calls over data connection, but the technology is not fully mature or standardized.

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Researchers Donner Party Member By Lincoln Documents For Travel

Scientists have made an unexpected discovery among the items Donner Party member is stored in the bag from the ill-fated trip group in California: military document with handwriting of Abraham Lincoln on it.

Donner Party member James Reid and his family are being collected rolls called Lincoln on them among their most cherished relics, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum said in a statement issued Monday.

Group of librarians, historians and experts on hand combined forces to confirm that the letter Lincoln was one of the documents, which list of Lincoln and volunteer soldiers who fought in the 1832 Black Hawk War.

"We often find documents that detail the fascinating stories about the life of Abraham Lincoln's time, but is rather rare for this document so intriguing stories after it was written," said Daniel Stowell, director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln. "This part of the documents in detail the military service of Lincoln, and that they were accompanied by Donner Party in California, makes them doubly important."

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