SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. said it will not participate in the Federal Communications Commission's proposed auction of spectrum in the 700 MHz band. The company noted its decision was due to the FCC's announcement last Friday to delay the auction of the upper...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, is expected to introduce legislation next week directing the Federal Communications Commission to go forward with the 700 MHz auction as scheduled on June 19.The legislation, which was still being drafted at...
WASHINGTON—As expected, U.S. legislators on Wednesday introduced the Auction Reform Act of 2002 to delay the 700 MHz auction."I am delighted that 52 members of the are original co-sponsors of this legislation. It demonstrates that an overwhelming majority of members of our committee...
WASHINGTON—As expected, the telecom quartet on Wednesday introduced the Auction Reform Act of 2002 to delay the 700 MHz auction."I am delighted that 52 members of the are original co-sponsors of this legislation. It demonstrates that an overwhelming majority of members of our...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, lacking solid options and clear direction from the Bush administration, likely will be forced to postpone a final decision in July on spectrum for third-generation wireless systems.While FCC officials have publicly stated they want to decide the 3G spectrum issue...
WASHINGTON-Whether the nation is plagued with daunting deficits or buoyed by gushing surpluses, spectrum auctions remain a lightning rod for controversy as the revenue-generating wireless licensing tool becomes inextricably intertwined in national budget policy.This was inevitable.Spectrum auctions grew out of a 1993 budget bill...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration last week proposed to delay key spectrum auctions and to phase out programs designed to bridge the Digital Divide, components of the president's $1.96 trillion budget that signals the White House's desire to improve spectrum management and its intention to end...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration has proposed to delay key spectrum auctions and to phase out past Internet programs, as components of the president's US$1.96 trillion budget that signals the White House's desire to improve spectrum management and its intention to end corporate telecom subsidies.Bush's spectrum...
News of the Federal Communications Commission's plan to delay the auction of 700 MHz spectrum from March to September, caused a slight panic for shareholders of Nextel Communications Inc. stock last Wednesday who saw the announcement as bad news for the carrier.The companies stock...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission took several actions to try to clarify the transition from analog to digital TV broadcasting and when the wireless industry will have access to those channels.The commission declined to set out a mandatory band-clearing plan for the 700 MHz band...
WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless, which has spent almost $9 billion for personal communications services licenses, asked the Federal Communications Commission last week to delay the March 6 auction of 700 MHz licenses until September."The 700 MHz auction should be postponed. There remains considerable uncertainty about the...
CHICAGO-"Spectrum is like money, everyone always wants more of it and you can never get enough of it," said Mark Kelley, chief technology officer of Leap Wireless International Inc.It is a widely held theory in the wireless industry. But is it accurate?This was a...
The immediate problem has been solved. The 700 MHz auction has been postponed to March 6. Now the government quickly must decide on a long-term strategy for the use of the spectrum.If government wants the wireless industry to pay for 700 MHz frequencies, rules...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week delayed the auction of commercial licenses in the 700 MHz band, while proceeding with plans to auction licenses for guard-band managers and proposing service rules for public-safety uses on the same band.The FCC originally intended to hold two...
The upcoming U.S. spectrum auctions present some interesting times for the wireless industry.Auctions in the past were more predictable, primarily reserved for veteran executives experienced in running wireless networks.Today, the story is much different. Wireless has caught the attention of many powerful and nontraditional...
WASHINGTON-A congressional subcommittee and the wireless industry put pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to delay the upcoming 700 MHz auction, while private wireless wants the agency to go ahead with the guard-band auction.In addition, Verizon Wireless asked to delay the Nov. 29 re-auction...
The Third Generation Partnership Project, a standards body initially established by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to work on W-CDMA technology, last week agreed to include standards work on GSM technology as well.The organizational partners, which consist of standards-development bodies from the United States,...
The eight-year dispute between Qualcomm Inc. and the Federal Communications Commission over a pioneer's preference license ended last week. The FCC granted Qualcomm a $125 million auction-discount voucher applicable during the next three years in government spectrum auctions.The commission in 1992 denied Qualcomm pioneer...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau last week said it may allow package bidding in the upcoming 700 MHz auction.Package-or combination-bidding would allow participants to bid on a package of licenses all at once for an all-or-nothing bid rather than each license separately.The 700 MHz...
NEW YORK-Excluding the third-generation wireless impact, the number of cell sites for mobile communications in the United States likely will reach 140,000 in the next two years, said Ric Prentiss, senior vice president of equity research for Raymond James & Associates.Citing Cellular Telecommunications Industry...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission asked for Capitol Hill's blessing to delay until September the 700 MHz auctions after large wireless carriers said the spectrum was too heavily encumbered to be of any value."I have serious concerns about the compressed timing for these auctions ......
WASHINGTON-The government stepped closer to opening its July 26 auction of personal communications services licenses to large wireless carriers that may pay high dollar for spectrum in key markets like New York and San Francisco."Perhaps it is time for the commission going forward in...
The Federal Communications Commission should lift the spectrum cap placed on companies bidding in the 700 MHz auction and the C- and F-block re-auction of PCS spectrum.It pains me to say that. From its infancy in the early 90s, I have rooted for the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's decision to delay until June 7 the auction of broadcast spectrum has raised questions about the agency's motives and intentions.The spectrum, freed up as a result of TV broadcasters transition from analog to digital technology, is known as 60-69 because...
