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Following a weather-induced day of reflection, the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96 resumed today with five rounds of bidding. Participants appeared a bit groggy following the previous day’s cancellation due …

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All H-Block spectrum licenses up for bid in the ongoing Federal Communications Commission Auction 96 are now in play with all 176 “economic area” licenses now having received at least …

Data privacy and net neutrality are featured in this week’s roundup of mobile policy news.

The Federal Communications Commission’s auction of the H-Block spectrum kicked off the week at a more heated clip that resulted in an additional $100 million in potential winning bids. The …

India reduced the minimum price for airwave access in an attempt to sell mobile wireless service spectrum in a recent auction. This is the second time airwave access has been put up for auction in India, as the first sale in 2012 saw few takers.

Updated with comment from Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless used this weekend’s Super Bowl as the test bed for its LTE Multicast service that is based on the LTE Broadcast standard …

The total bids in the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of H-block spectrum reached $1 billion on Friday, with about $560 million left before the reserve price is met. There are …

The New York economic area license continues to be the crown jewel of the Federal Communications Commission’s auction 96, and drew even further away from the rest of the pack …

The second day of five-round bidding in the Federal Communications Commission’s H-block auction 96 ended with just 19 licenses still FCC-held, and a new bidding total of $781 million. The …

Five rounds of Auction 96 bidding were held today, with the total bid for the H-block spectrum reaching nearly $630 million after 17 completed rounds. Bidders continue to whittle away …

It was a busy day for the Federal Communications Commission’s auction 96, with the H-Block bids now totaling more than  $456 million after the three rounds of bidding held Monday. …

Bidders looking to snare H-Block spectrum hit the weekend having put up more than $400 million in potential winning bids as part of the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96. Through …

Looking back, 2013 was a year of transformation in which several major transactions enabled the carriers to reshape and reinforce themselves for a “Final Four” competition for leadership in the U.S. market.

Day two of the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96, also known as the H-Block, witnessed $85 million more in potential winning bids, driving up the total amount to just over …

The first day of the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96 included three rounds of bidding and a total purse of more than $221 million pledged for the licenses up for …

With mobile data use once again continuing on an upswing, averaging more than 60% annual growth, I predict that we are going to see mobile network operators worldwide looking even deeper

The Federal Communications Commission is set this week to begin auctioning off 176, 10-megahertz spectrum licenses in the upper 1.9 GHz band known as the H-Block. The auction is scheduled …

The Federal Communications Commission has put the finishing touches on ensuring interoperability across the lower 700 MHz spectrum band, announcing a modification to AT&T’s lower B- and C-Block licenses to …

Get this: At this moment there is a spectrum auction happening not too far from where you are probably reading this. That is if you are reading this somewhere that is not “too far” from Canada, which is where that auction is happening.

NetZero followed up on previously announced plans to expand its mobile broadband service offering across Sprint’s CDMA-based 3G network. The expansion comes with the implementation of a five-year deal signed …

Globalive withdraw its hat from Canada’s highly anticipated 700 MHz spectrum auction just one day before the event was set to get under way. Globalive, which operates under the Wind …

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