News

Downloaded new data for the Bands map for April. I’m still waiting on the FCC to approve several of the pending spectrum acquisitions  (cable companies to Verizon, AT&T AWS to T-Mobile, etc) before I do a visual map update.

I’m still trying to build something to allow people to visualize spectrum blocks subdivided geographically and by frequency. We’ll see…

I updated the Spectrum Mapper to version 2.0! The big (and only) feature add was the ability to view spectrum ownership by band and block. Now in some cases (PCS Broadband block) the frequencies are divided up into a million pieces nationwide, so you get this incredible listing of frequencies, which really doesn’t help but I’ll figure out a way to clean it up.

So the next things are deep linking into the map and cleaning up the band frequency listing.

Data Update: Added Qualcomm spectrum to AT&T, waiting on AT&T’s FCC filing to move their AWS spectrum over to T-Mobile.

And yes, this is what I spent my New Years Eve doing. Pretty sad huh?

OK, so maybe I will be working a little more on the project! After getting linked by Engadget Mobile and having over 3000 hits (probably more since I didn’t have Google Analytics setup yet), I think I’ll put a little more work into this mapping system.

For now I’m working on three things

• Deep linking into the map – link into a map that shows Verizon’s 700MHz Upper C licenses, I can do that.
• Group by band – this alternate view will allow users to select one band/block (e.g. 700MHz Lower B block) and then see nationwide who owns all that spectrum across carriers.
• Easier to update license data – behind the scenes, I’d like it to be easier to download data from the FCC and update the system easier, right now its not so easy.

Back to work!