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NewsT-Mobile calls for delay of FCC's free wireless broadband initiative
T-Mobile USA has asked the FCC to extend the public-comment period for its controversial plan to auction a nationwide block of spectrum that would see the licensee offering free broadband services. Read more...
Is Google satisfied with its new wireless broadband venture?
Google finally got what it wanted--access to a broadband network to realize its dream of transferring it dominance in online advertising into the wireless broadband world. By making a sizable Read more...
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...
Is 3 UK moving toward a bit-pipe model?
Kevin Russel, CEO of 3 UK, which has taken the open access model to heart by opening up its network to any application, has reset the company's business objectives by stating there will be less 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...
FCC denies Skype's Carterphone petition
During Tuesday's keynote address at the CTIA show, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin drew applause from the audience when he announced that the commission was going to deny Skype's petition to apply the 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...
Verizon Wireless reveals open access details
In its Open Network conference in New York yesterday, Verizon Wireless executives revealed to developers more details about the firm's new open network agenda. Read more...
| Press ReleasesVERIZON WIRELESS TO ISSUE DEVICE SPECS AT OPEN DEVELOPMENT DEVICE CONFERENCEVerizon Wireless today said its
upcoming Open Development Device Conference will feature the release and
publication of Version 1.0 of the technical specifications for new Read more... New Compete, Inc. Study Shows Wireless Shoppers Have Enough Choices BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Compete, Inc., a leading web analytics company, today released an in-depth study analyzing consumers’ Read more... VERIZON WIRELESS TO INTRODUCE ‘ANY APPS, ANY DEVICE’ OPTION FOR CUSTOMERS IN 200811/27/2007 BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless today announced that it will provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wireless network, wireless devices, software and applications Read more... Press Release: Nokia Applauds FCC Decision to Require 'Open Access' for U.S. 700MHz SpectrumNokia Applauds FCC Decision to Require 'Open Access' for U.S. 700MHz Spectrum -Decision to benefit consumers by promoting greater competition and innovation in U.S. wireless industry- HELSINKI, Read more... Re: WT Docket Nos. 06-150, 06-169 and 96-86; PS Docket No. 06-229 (Press Release)The Honorable Kevin J. Martin, Chairman
The Honorable Michael J. Copps
The Honorable Jonathan S. Adelstein
The Honorable Deborah Taylor Tate
The Honorable Robert M. McDowell
Federal Communications Read more... |