There’s a major paradox in the wireless industry today. On the one hand it’s never been more difficult to compete. With subscribers heavily concentrated in the hands of the two largest carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless – a situation compounded by the advent of exclusive...
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The FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau is seeking further input on the band plan for spectrum to be freed up through the planned voluntary incentive auction of TV broadcast spectrum. That auction will give TV broadcasters the option of relinquishing spectrum in the 600 MHz UHF...
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May 17, 2013 — OVERLAND PARK, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sprint (NYSE: S) today completed its transaction with U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM) to acquire 20MHz of PCS spectrum in various Midwest markets including Chicago, South Bend, Ind., and Champaign, Ill., and 10MHz of PCS spectrum in the St....
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Mignon Clyburn has been the strongest advocate for mobile device interoperability on the Federal Communications Commission and now that she has been appointed acting chairwoman – a position she could hold for several months – AT&T saw fit to reiterate its arguments against interoperability in...
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Cal.net, a wireless Internet service provider based in California’s mountainous Gold Country, is offering customers data rates of up to 3 Mbps downstream over a distance of up to five miles without line of sight using broadband wireless equipment that operates in vacant TV broadcast...
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The Competitive Carriers Association is meeting this week in New Orleans and a regional wireless carrier panel this morning urged the industry not to make the same mistakes with the upcoming 600 MHz spectrum auction that were made with the past 700 Mhz auctions. Chief...
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The rural telecom industry seems to have caught the attention of legislators. Yesterday two members of the House of Representatives announced the formation of a bipartisan working group of the Energy and Commerce Committee that will work to “promote rural telecommunication issues within the Committee.”...
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Small carriers that don’t already have low-frequency spectrum should have an opportunity to acquire some in the upcoming voluntary incentive auction of TV broadcast spectrum, said the Justice Department in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission made public last week (via Reuters). TV broadcast...
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Two months after giving holders of 700 MHz A-block spectrum more time to build out their networks, the FCC yesterday granted an extension for 700 MHz B-block licensees as well. Both types of licensees now could have until at least December to complete construction to...
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After ignoring a previous inquiry from Telecompetitor on the topic, U.S. Cellular confirmed yesterday in an email to us that the company has deployed LTE using 700 MHz A-block spectrum in some markets. The company has A-block and other spectrum holdings and previously appeared reluctant...
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When the FCC last year got the ball rolling on a voluntary incentive auction of television broadcast spectrum, comments made by various commissioners suggested that one of the most difficult issues to resolve would be how much spectrum to make available for unlicensed use. And...
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Dire predictions of crashing mobile networks and chronic network overload due to mobile spectrum shortage haven’t come to pass, thanks in large part to technologies such as HSPA+ and LTE that enable mobile network carriers to use spectrum more efficiently, says a new report from...
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