The government - not just the Federal Communications Commission - failed in its plan to deploy a mixed-use network that could be used by regular Joes and the public-safety community (in times of emergency, or whenever else they need it). The D-Block plan did...
As for the D Block, which received a single $472 million bid from Qualcomm Inc. in the opening round and eventually fell far short of the $1.3 billion reserve price, the Federal Communications Commission said it has decided not to immediately re-offer the D...
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...
Proponents of blind bidding claim the nearly $20 billion in pledges for 700 MHz licenses as well as the possible addition of a few new players (though unlikely national) in the wireless space vindicate their emphatic embrace of the no-name competition methodology. And who...
It's still seemingly early in the game, but bidding in the Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz auction is materializing into a good news-bad news auction of epic proportions.Click here for complete 700 MHz auction coverage.In less than two dozen rounds, bidding shattered the $13.8...
Compared with yesterday, when potential winning bids added more than $4 billion to the bottom line, bidding early today in the Federal Communication Commission's 700MHz spectrum auction looked downright sleepy. Although bidders dumped another $1.8 billion in bids into the auction through the first...
Wall Street Journal editorialists must be feeling downright cocky about now, fresh off their inimitable 'I-told-you-so' jab at Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin in the aftermath of Frontline Wireless' demise and subsequent handwringing over whether anyone else in the private sector has the...
Below are RCR Wireless News' 10 biggest stories of the year. These are the stories that rocked the industry in 2007, and set the groundwork for the future of wireless.
1. iCANDY
iPhone looks tempting, but users have to wait until June to see if it...
The Federal Communications Commission selected the Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corp. as the licensee that will team up with the winning bidder of the commercial D-Block spectrum license in the upcoming 700 MHz auction to deploy a dual-use wireless broadband network. "We are...
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION relaxed the small-business bidding rule for the 700 MHz national commercial/public-safety block, but the agency cannot seem to shake lingering legal challenges that have the potential to disrupt the upcoming auction-as well as last year's sale of advanced wireless services...
WHILE THE 700 MHZ OPEN-ACCESS COURT BATTLE ESCALATES into a brawl among major stakeholders eyeing the upcoming auction, the public-safety community is methodically laying the foundation to partner with the winner of a national wireless license in an unprecedented experiment of high stakes for...
The Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corp. filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission seeking to become the licensee that partners with the winning bidder of the commercial-first responder broadband wireless license in next year's 700 MHz auction."The PSST is moving ahead with all...
The Public Safety Spectrum Trust selected Cyren Call Communications Corp. as its advisor for negotiations with the eventual winner of the commercial-first responder broadband license in the 700 MHz auction, set to begin Jan. 16. "Although we have selected a single advisor, I'm hopeful...
The upcoming auction of 700 MHz could give birth to an unprecedented infrastructure that could serve countless rural consumers as it provides a crucial boost to the nation's public-safety industry.Or it could be a debacle.The winner of the highly prized chunk of spectrum will...
Who says you can't buy influence? Or at least attempt to.During the first six months of this year, the communications-electronics sector spent big money attempting to curry favor from elected officials on topics ranging from trade disputes to the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction.According...
hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office environmentby poking your head over the top of the cube.While there is plenty of coverage on the FCC's 700 MHz auction rules throughout this issue, early betting around the RCR Wireless News' world headquarters has this auction...
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION LAST WEEK approved 700 MHz rules to foster the creation of a nationwide public-safety/commercial broadband network and introduce new devices and applications in a wireless space tightly controlled by four national operators.The FCC designated for auction a nationwide 10-megahertz spectrum...
The Federal Communications Commission approved 700 MHz auctions rules to foster the creation of a nationwide public safety-commercial broadband network and the introduction of new devices and applications in the wireless space.The agency voted to designate for auction a nationwide 10-megahertz spectrum block adjacent...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin's 700 MHz plan has triggered an angry backlash, with the agency chief suddenly finding himself squeezed by the cellular industry and others vehemently opposed to open access and those asserting the draft rule does not go nearly far...
Major wireless policy debates are increasingly ceasing to be Inside-the-Beltway brawls limited to high-powered lobbyists hired by well-heeled, warring industry factions. Instead, proponents of ambitiously controversial proposals-particularly those promising to extend the reach of a free and open Internet-have been able to tap into...
WHILE FRONTLINE WIRELESS L.L.C., Congress and the mobile-phone industry sound off in the final throes of a testy, high-profile 700 MHz debate, the steady, low-key diplomacy of the public-safety community could prove decisive in determining whether the Federal Communications Commission approves for auction a...
The 700 MHz debate has suddenly turned both interesting and nasty in the lead-up to next month's expected ruling by the Federal Communications Commission on auction rules.An AT&T Inc. official disclosed the top mobile-phone operator is mulling a play for a national commercial-public safety...
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION appears to have gained sufficient political cover to move forward with plans to auction a national 700 MHz license designed to serve unmet public-safety and consumer broadband needs, but the agency must still resolve a slew of critical issues before...
Perhaps we should all just go back into hibernation for a few weeks until some of this iFrenzy subsides.On the other hand, given that iHysteria will only gather greater force in the weeks ahead from its virtual-life-source-namesake-master-the Internet-we might as well sit back and...
