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Verizon, Google spar over open access again
After Google filed a petition with the FCC, insisting that the regulator put in place stricter terms for Verizon Wireless' C Block 700 MHz open access provisions, Verizon Wireless claimed the Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Open access could reduce network investment
A study from the Phoenix Center released this week estimates broad application of the "open-platform" requirements mandated by the Federal Communications Commission for the upper 700 MHz C-block Read more...
Operators reveal 700 MHz plans: LTE the big winner
The CTIA trade show would have been much more livelier had the winners of the 700 MHz auction been allowed to detail their plans for the spectrum. But the FCC anti-collusion restrictions were lifted Read more...
Google: We never intended to win 700 MHz licenses
Now that the 700 MHz auction winners are revealing their plans for the spectrum, Google is admitting it bid in the auction but never really intended to win the spectrum. Instead, in a corporate blog, Read more...
As expected, 700 MHz auction results in same faces
It appears everything went as planned for Google. It didn't have to cough up any money in the 700 MHz auction but it ensured the open-access provisions (at least most of them) that it fought for at Read more...
Verizon, AT&T big winners in 700 MHz auction
Verizon Wireless was the big winner for the 700 MHz auction after winning the Upper C Block of spectrum, which is laden with open access provisions. Google did not win any licenses. Satellite Read more...
700 MHz auction finally over
After 261 rounds of bidding and more than $19.59 billion in provisionally winning bids, the 700 MHz auction (officially Auction 73) is over. Four out of the five spectrum blocks achieved their Read more...