Mobile television is all over the place, yet going nowhere fast all at the same time. Consumer choice for TV and video on their cellphones is pretty robust, but that's only if they know it even exists.Sure, mobile TV and video usage is growing...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- With results from the Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz auction now public, Commissioner Robert McDowell said one thing stands out: large, deep-pocketed companies squeezed smaller (and in some cases newer) players out of the process -- despite government mandates that were...
Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility ran the table at the 700 MHz auction, accounting for most of the record $19.6 billion in bidding that broke historic ground on open access, lost ground on public safety and gave dozens of mostly white-male-owned small businesses a...
Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility ran the table at the 700 MHz auction, accounting for most of the record $19.6 billion in bidding that broke historic ground on open access, lost ground on public safety and gave dozens of mostly white-male-owned small businesses a...
Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility won the vast majority of the 700 MHz spectrum up for grabs during the Federal Communications Commission's recently completed auction. Verizon Wireless was the event's biggest spender, doling out $9.63 billion (fully half of the almost $20 billion in...
A coalition of consumer and public-interest groups asked the Federal Communications Commission to probe the 700 MHz auction's failure to attract a winning bidder for the national commercial-public safety D-Block license, an outcome of growing interest to Congress."In particular, PISC asks the commission to...
With the close of a 700 MHz auction whose mixed results still remain largely unknown, the spotlight now shifts to how policymakers at the Federal Communications Commissions and Congress will respond to a national commercial-public safety license left to languish after 38 days and...
It took 38 days and 261 rounds, but the Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction came to an end this afternoon, having raised $19.592 billon for the U.S. treasury. The haul is a record for an FCC-run auction and nearly double the high...
The Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction trudged into day 38 of bidding activity due to a small number of bids -- in some cases a single bid placed during a round -- that continue to be placed on a handful of licenses.Over...
The Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz auction took on a more heated feel today as the agency increased the number of rounds per day from 10 to 14. A similar move during the advanced wireless services auction in 2006 brought about an almost immediate...
As the 700 MHz auction winds to a close - apparently without a winning bidder for the commercial/public-safety license or a clear roadmap for meeting first responders' communications needs - progress is nonetheless being made on other fronts.The Department of Homeland Security's Science and...
Almost 18 months after the advanced wireless services spectrum auction wrapped, carriers are on the verge of commercially launching networks and devices that make use of the recently cleared 1.7/2.1 GHz spectrum bands.Although the carrier hasn't launched any AWS markets yet, Leap Wireless International...
So let us get this straight. 100,000 developers paid $100 a piece to download Apple's new SDK for the iPhone. We are no math majors, but doesn't that translate to like $10 million? Apple is amazing.-------------------------------FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is in so much trouble...
And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way. We...
It appears bidders were not frightened off by passing the 200-round milestone in the Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction as new bids continue to trickle in at a slow but steady rate. New bids fluctuated between four and six for each of...
Bidding remained slow during the last half of day 33 and the beginning of day 34 of the Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction, with the previous 10 rounds of bidding attracting between five and six new bids per round. Click here for...
For those anxiously waiting for the conclusion of the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz auction, you can blame five B-Block licenses for the holdup.Bidding over the past several rounds has centered on five 12-megahertz B-Block spectrum licenses covering Albany, Ga.; Yuba City and Imperial,...
Pushing the clocks ahead by an hour appeared to have little impact on the Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz auction, which picked up this morning where it left off on Friday: new bids in the single digits and very little new money being deposited...
Could today be the day that the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction comes to an end?New bids continued to dwindle in Auction 73, with action during rounds 170 through 178 huddled in the low double digits, before dropping to 7 new bids...
Bidding remained subdued over the past 10 rounds of the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction, with new bids per round hovering in the high single-digit and low teens. The lackluster action contributed around $3 million to the auction's total potential winning bids,...
The Federal Communication Commission's attempt yesterday to spur interest -- and hasten the end -- of the 700 MHz auction by moving to "stage three" bidding provided a temporary boost that by this morning seemed to have lost steam. Bids per round had jumped...
The Federal Communications Commission announced it moved the 700 MHz spectrum auction into "stage three" in an effort to speed the proceedings along. Now, bidders must be active on at 98% of their current bidding eligibility in each round.The FCC moved the auction into...
Despite an attempt to speed the end of its 700 MHz spectrum auction, the Federal Communications Commission still counted around two dozen bids in each of this morning's rounds. Thus, those hoping for the event to come to a close early this week may...
In an effort to bring the event to a close, the Federal Communications Commission announced that starting today the 700 MHz auction will speed up to eight rounds of bidding per day, up from six. The news, coupled with the slowly declining number of...
