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NewsVerizon, 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...
Sprint's backhaul conundrum
Last month Sprint Nextel said provisioning of backhaul is the primary hold-up to the Read more...
NextWave selling big swathes of spectrum
Just in time. Last week NextWave announced it enlisted the help of Deutsche Bank and UBS to assist in the sale of its vast U.S. spectrum holdings, which include licenses and lease rights for a total Read more...
How much spectrum do AT&T and Verizon have?
In just how many markets do AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless exceed 95 megahertz of spectrum? Since spending a collective $16 billion in the recent 700 MHz auction, analysts have believed the Read more...
Could the 700 MHz auction trigger spectrum caps?
Could the recently completed 700 MHz auction trigger spectrum caps--which were lifted in 2003--and other regulations on the mobile wireless industry? Last week, some in Congress lamented that Read more...
Vodafone CEO: Verizon likely to deploy LTE first
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin indicated in an interview with BusinessWeek that its partly owned venture Verizon Wireless would likely have to upgrade before Vodafone because the company is "riding the 3.5G Read more...
Novatel issues profit warning
Novatel Wireless, which sells laptop cards and embedded modems, warned it would miss its first-quarter financial forecast. The company reduced its first-quarter earnings estimate to $91 million from 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...
Verizon plans femtocell rollout this year
Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone said at the CTIA Wireless 2008 trade show last week that the carrier would begin offering femtocell products and service plans sometime this year. The announcement 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...
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operator of the nation’s most reliable wireless network, announced today
that VZ NavigatorSM (Version 4) is now available on select consumer
phones. Read more... Qwest to Deliver Verizon Wireless Products and Services to Its CustomersQwest Communications International
Inc. (NYSE: Q) and Verizon Wireless announced today they have signed a
5-year agreement for Qwest to market and sell Verizon Wireless service
beginning this Read more... VERIZON AND VODAFONE TEAM UP TO DELIVER THE FIRST LIVE GLOBAL MOBILE SIMULCAST OF MADONNA PERFORMANCE AT ROSELAND BALLROOM ON AP Verizon
Wireless and Vodafone announced they are teaming up to deliver the first ever
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J., April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless, the builder and operator of the nation's most reliable wireless network, and VOCEL, publisher of premium branded Read more... |