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Special Issue on
Wi-Fi History

info: The journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media has recently published a special issue on "The genesis of unlicensed spectrum policy". My congratulations to Chuck Jackson who was both the organizer of the April 2008 seminar at George Mason University, "Unleashing Unlicensed - How Wi-Fi got its regulatory groove", that resulted in the writing of these papers and Guest Editor of this issue. Below is the table of contents of the issue with links to the papers. These links are free only to subscribers but the original versions of the papers are still available at the GMU site.

	Unlicensed to kill: a brief history of the Part 15 rules Kenneth R. Carter (pp. 8-18) View HTML | View PDF (96 KB) | Reprints & Permissions
	Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: the path from Carter and Reagan-era faith in deregulation to widespread products impacting our world Michael J. Marcus (pp. 19-35) View HTML | View PDF (393 KB) | Reprints & Permissions
	History of wireless local area networks (WLANs) in the unlicensed bands Kevin J. Negus, Al Petrick (pp. 36-56) View HTML | View PDF (371 KB) | Reprints & Permissions
	Licence-exempt: the emergence of Wi-Fi Vic Hayes, Wolter Lemstra (pp. 57-71) View HTML | View PDF (119 KB) | Reprints & Permissions
	Grazing on the commons: the emergence of Part 15 Henry Goldberg (pp. 72-75) View HTML | View PDF (50 KB) | Reprints & Permissions
	Unleashing innovation: making the FCC user-friendly Stephen J. Lukasik (pp. 76-85) View HTML | View PDF (85 KB) | Reprints & Permissions
	Has “unlicensed” in Part 15 worked? A case study Tim Pozar (pp. 86-91) View HTML | View PDF (227 KB) | Reprints & Permissions

Guest editorial

	The genesis of unlicensed wireless policy Vol : 11 Issue: 5 Special Issue: The genesis of unlicensed wireless policy Author(s): Charles L. Jackson View HTML