Telecompetitor

CenturyTel, one of the few large rural telcos to be in the fortunate position of owning 700 Mhz spectrum, hinted they intend to launch 4G wireless services using LTE technology in 2010. The hints came from CenturyTel CEO Glen Post on their 4Q08 earnings conference call. It will be CenturyTel’s first foray into a facilities based mobile wireless service. CenturyTel’s 700 Mhz footprint ...

In a revealing presentation, Cox President Patrick Esser told the Progress and Freedom Foundation's annual tech policy summit in Aspen, Colorado that they intend to capture 20% market share for wireless service. Rather than join the Clearwire alliance like their other cable brethren, Cox is going it alone through its recent acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum. As reported by ...

CenturyTel, a Louisiana based tier 2 telecom carrier, has announced their intentions for the 69 700 MHz spectrum licenses they obtained in the recent FCC auction. CenturyTel says the 700 MHz spectrum provides them the "opportunity to deliver wireless voice and broadband data to a significant percentage of our current customer base, making CenturyTel the only on-net provider of both fixed and wireless broadband in many of ...

AT&T gave a glimpse into their 4G strategy, announcing they will use their considerable 700 MHz spectrum holdings for forthcoming long term evolution (LTE) technology. It’s the clearest direction AT&T has given to date about their long term 4G plans. AT&T says its 700 MHz spectrum will cover 100 percent of the top 200 markets and 87 percent of the ...

Google’s influence in wireless continues, with its focus shifting away from the 700 MHz auction to the so called wireless “white space” initiative. Wireless white space is the “empty spaces” in television spectrum used by channels 2 through 51. After the 2009 digital TV transition, this spectrum will be freed up and Google would like it to be used as ...

The FCC released results from the 700 MHZ auction and it looks like the pre-release consensus was right. Verizon Wireless and AT&T were the big winners, with Verizon gaining a national 700 MHz footprint. They both bid a combined $16.3 billion, with AT&T bidding $6.64 billion for 227 B-block licenses and Verizon Wireless bidding $9.63 billion for the large C-block regional licenses. An ...

The 700 MHz auction ended on Tuesday after 30+ days, 261 rounds, and $19.5 billion pledged. The speculation now shifts to who won the spectrum, and what will they do with it. Industry consensus is that the auction did not produce a new nationwide competitior for wireless service, like say a Google or someone else. The usual suspects of AT&T and/or Verizon are the likely winners of the coveted ...

The 700 MHz auction has slowed considerably, leading some to believe this may be the last week of the auction. At the conclusion of round 105, there were 1,090 provisional winning bids among 1,089 provisional winning bidders, for a total of $19,524,595,900 billion bid. Action on the nationwide C block has long since ended, and it appears the regional bidding for the “nationwide” C block will prevail. The ...

The WiMAX Forum announced a technology roadmap that will allow mobile WiMAX to operate in the 700 MHz spectrum band. WiMAX in the U.S. has been mostly focused on the 2.3 GHz and 2.5 GHz bands, of which Sprint/Xohm and Clearwire are major holders/users. Expanding to the 700 MHz bands opens up a range of opportunities with other carriers, especially after the ...

The 700 Mhz auction continues to impress, with a record $19.2 billion bid for 1089 provisional winning bids. Round 52 is scheduled to begin Monday morning, and continue throughout the day with six scheduled rounds. Although bidding on the nationwide “open-access” C block has slowed down, there has been much speculation that the Verizon and Google are the bidders in play. Many are speculating that ...