The third week of the advanced wireless spectrum auction showed significant slowing in bidding action. Nevertheless, it appears the Sprint Nextel Corp.-cable joint venture is aiming to build a broad footprint of 20-megahertz B-block licenses. Click here for the latest headlines from the AWS...
WASHINGTON-Government spectrum managers are being challenged like no time before in efforts to clear the way for next-generation mobile phone and wireless broadband services-as well as rectify serious interference problems-through messy licensee relocation and frequency re-banding processes. Indeed, relocation and re-banding glitches have tended...
WASHINGTON-The unsuccessful proxy fight lodged by Highland Capital Management L.P. against Motient Corp. has given way to another nasty skirmish over proposed ownership changes in mobile satellite assets whose value may have been a factor in the exit of a high-rolling satellite TV bidding...
Agents of change are at work.Some are obvious and tangible, like Sprint Nextel Corp.'s questionable decision to sack bygone chief operating officer Len Lauer for sad financial results at a company whose chief executive officer has yet to articulate a coherent vision for this...
PLAINFIELD, Ind.-Brightpoint Inc. handled roughly 42 million mobile phones last year and may handle 60 million or more this year. But whatever you do, don't call the company a distributor. "If anything, we are a customized logistics company," Senior Vice President Anurag Gupta protested...
WASHINGTON—NextWave Telecom Inc. and Dobson Communications Co. are the two most active bidders remaining in the advanced wireless services spectrum auction. Click here for the latest headlines from the AWS auction. Click here for full AWS auction coverage.The bidding continued to wind down on...
WASHINGTON—Bidding continues to slow in the advanced wireless services spectrum auction with only 91 new bids being entered in round 67, though the number of bids was up slightly from the 83 bids placed in rounds 65 and 66. The number of bids per...
WASHINGTON—NextWave Telecom Inc. continues to elbow other companies for spectrum in the advanced wireless services spectrum, holding 144 high bids on spectrum through its AWS Wireless Inc. bidding subsidiary worth about $121 million at the end of round 61. Click here for the latest...
SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. said it completed a public offering of 6.4 million shares of common stock for $42 per share. The sale included 840,000 shares of common stock sold as part of an over-allotment option granted to the underwriters.Leap also said it...
WASHINGTON—In a sign that the auction is drawing nearer to conclusion, the Federal Communications Commission increased the number of bidding rounds per day from 4 to 6. The auction has garnered nearly $13.6 billion in bids following round 58, though the number of bids...
WASHINGTON—Bidding has slowed dramatically in the advanced wireless services spectrum auction, also known as Auction 66, with an average of about 140 new bids placed in the last few rounds. Click here for the latest headlines from the AWS auction. Click here for full...
If, as the saying goes, pops are tops in an auction, then T-Mobile USA Inc. is certainly outdoing itself in the advanced wireless services spectrum auction thus far. Meanwhile, Sprint Nextel Corp.'s joint venture with several cable companies also is doing well, despite losing...
WASHINGTON—The Sprint Nextel Corp./cable joint venture appears to be achieving a national footprint without the benefit of costly regional licenses. Click here for the latest headlines from the AWS auction. Click here for full AWS auction coverage.As of round 46 of the advanced wireless...
WASHINGTON—Some of the players who were squeezed out of regional spectrum licenses early in the auction seem to be making up the loss with dozens of smaller geographic licenses. Click here for the latest headlines from the AWS auction. Click here for full AWS...
WASHINGTON—The total amount raised by the advanced wireless services auction is creeping toward $13 billion, although each round is raising less money that the previous. However, bidding is still active on a number of licenses; the number of licenses with new high bids continues...
WASHINGTON—Just as at any yard sale after a long weekend, the big, expensive items are long gone and the persistent shoppers have continued to rummage about for the unappreciated gems that add significant value to their own current holdings. Click here for the latest...
WASHINGTON—Bidding remained active on the ninth day of the Federal Communication Commission’s advanced wireless services spectrum auction, as bidders continued to focus their attention on smaller licenses now that bidding on big regional licenses appears to have ended. Click here for the latest headlines...
As the advanced wireless spectrum auction moved into its second full week, competition for regional licenses was slowing considerably and a number of potential new wireless players had dropped out. T-Mobile USA Inc. appears likely to succeed in its quest of expanding its spectrum...
Despite initial anticipation that cable and satellite companies would use the advanced wireless services spectrum auction to catapult into the mobile marketplace, the hype doesn't seem to be panning out. However, walking away from the spectrum auction may not be a bad thing, at...
While perusing the Telus Mobility Web site-hey, it was a slow week-we noticed the Canadian carrier was offering a Motorola Inc. M800 Bag Phone for the bargain price of $500 without a contract. In this day and age of ever-decreasing phone sizes, we think...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The battle for the large regional licenses in the advanced wireless services spectrum auction appears to be largely settled at this point, with Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc. the big winners. Click here for the latest headlines from the AWS auction. Click...
WASHINGTON—Verizon Wireless appears to be in a bidding war with T-Mobile USA Inc. over the valuable F-block licenses up for grabs in the advanced wireless services spectrum auction. Meanwhile, Sprint Nextel Corp.’s joint venture with four cable companies is focusing on buying spectrum within...
WASHINGTON—Satellite television providers EchoStar Communications Corp. and DirecTV Group Inc. have pulled out of the advanced wireless service spectrum auction.Click here for the latest headlines from the AWS auction. Click here for full AWS auction coverage.Look below for full details on round 18The satellite...
WASHINGTON—Verizon Wireless staked a claim to all six of the largest licenses for sale in the advanced wireless services auction, bidding $3.5 billion in round 14 of the auction for 20 megahertz of spectrum covering the entire continental United States.Click here for the latest...
