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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Ex USDA Worker Said White House Forced Me To Resign On Trumped Up Racial Controversy

Ex USDA Worker Said White House Forced Me To Resign On Trumped Up Racial Controversy:Black officer who resigned from the Ministry of Agriculture on Monday said that the White House made her comments after she said caused fabricated racial controversy.

Shirley Sherrod, a former director of the Georgia Rural Development, said that she received a phone call from the Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Cheryl Cook on Monday, when she was in the car. Cook said that the White House wanted to call it quits now.

"They called me twice," Sherrod told the Associated Press. "The last time they asked me to pull off the road and to submit his resignation on my Blackberry, and what I did."

The dispute began after a few organizations, the media published a 38-second video Sherrod speaking to the local branch of the Georgia NAACP. She says that the group did not produce a white farmer "in full force, what can I do" after he asked for help.

Videos surfaced days after the NAACP had quarreled with tea party members in connection with accusations of racism.

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