60 firms, including Intel, Cisco, Qualcomm, IBM sign letter to FCC
President Barack Obama’s recent suggestion that the Federal Communications Commission bring Internet regulation under Title II oversight brought a stinging rebuke from tech-industry leaders.
A list of 60 technology companies signed a letter sent to...
"Stage two" move spurs bids
A change in bidding requirements gave some new life to the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 proceedings with bids over the past 11 rounds adding $1.3 billion to the FCC spectrum auction total haul.
After 73 rounds of bidding, total potential...
The Federal Communications Commission this week reiterated its prohibition on the use of so-called cellphone jammers, including by state and local government and law enforcement agencies.
“Jammers do not just weed out noisy or annoying conversations and disable unwanted GPS tracking,” the FCC noted. “Jammers...
The Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 continued at a slowed pace, with the past six rounds, including the first round this morning, adding $250 million to the FCC spectrum auction total, which stood at $41.5 billion through round 62.
The latest round included 68 new...
The Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 slowly crawled past the $41 billion mark over the past few rounds of activity, with total auction proceeds sitting at $41.25 billion following this morning’s round 56. The latest round included just 65 new bids, adding $74.6 million...
The Federal Communications Commission this week restarted the 180-day review clock on a pair of significant acquisitions pending in front of the government regulator. The deals include AT&T’s $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV and Comcast’s $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable.
In resetting the...
Activity on most expensive licenses closed
The first round of bidding under the Federal Communications Commission’s revised schedule resulted in only a small decline in activity as overall Auction 97 bids neared $41 billion, or more than double the highest pre-event estimates of proceeds to...
FCC spectrum auction bidding slows as agency plans to increase pace
The Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 proceedings crawled over the $40 billion mark this morning, as overall activity slowed dramatically. New bids over the past four rounds added just $600 million to the auction’s...
New York City license tops $2.5B, Los Angeles surpasses $2B
Another day, another billion dollars in the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97, which this morning surpassed $39.5 billion in total potential winning bids through round 42. The latest round included 113 new bids totaling $181.4...
The Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 came out of the Thanksgiving break with some momentum as this morning’s opening round generated $268 million in proceeds from 292 bids. The auction, which includes 1,614 spectrum licenses in the 1.7/2.1 GHz band, sat at nearly $38.5...
Through this morning’s round 36, total bids in the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 topped $37.8 billion with 256 new bids placed in the latest round totaling $356.7 billion. The Auction 97 licenses split up a total of 65 megahertz of spectrum in the...
Big markets continue to feed record-setting auction
Bidders in the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 look to be parsing back activity heading into the upcoming holiday break, with total new bids per round falling below $500 million. Still a large chunk of change, but less...
Total potential winning bids for the ongoing Auction 97 proceedings have now nearly matched the combined proceeds gleaned from the three previous significant spectrum auctions, with no end yet in sight.
Through this morning’s round 28, total potential winning bids topped $34.6 billion. The latest...
Auction 97 action blew past the $30 billion mark Friday morning as bidders continued to throw billions of dollars at the 1,614 spectrum licenses up for grabs. Following this morning’s round 24, total potential winning bids sat at just over $31 billion. The latest...
FirstNet receives $7 billion funding
FirstNet, you're one of the first good things to come out of government funds in a while. To understand what FirstNet is, why it's so important and how it will affect the tower industry, let's look at a scary example...
The need for spectrum is becoming grossly apparent as bidding in the ongoing Federal Communications Commission Auction 97 has surpassed just about every estimate through one week of bidding.
Following round 20 on Thursday morning, total potential winning bids had topped $25.7 billion, with...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) spectrum auction bids passed the $16 billion mark on Tuesday, far in excess of the federal regulatory body’s $10.5 billion minimum goal. Round 16 of bidding will kick-off on Nov. 19.
Dubbed Auction 97, the FCC-led spectrum auction includes a total...
Round 12 of the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 of AWS-3 spectrum closed with $10.5 billion in bids, already topping the minimum bid amount set by the FCC. Yesterday's bidding closed at $8.91 billion. Major East Coast metropolitan areas that drew nine-figure bids during...
The Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 is already more than halfway to the agency's minimum goal of $10.5 billion in total auction proceeds. At the end of today's first round, the total bid stood at $5.5 billion.
Bidding was heated on Friday with total potential...
After just four rounds of bidding, the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 has surpassed $2.8 billion, or just over one quarter of the auction’s total reserve price.
At the end of the latest round this morning, 1,141 of the 1,614 licenses up for bid had received...
T-Mobile US goes to the Supreme Court
You've heard of someone not taking no for an answer, but T-Mobile US took a city's refusal to the highest court in the land. This week the Supreme Court began hearing the case of T-Mobile South v. Roswell. We first...
In just the first round, the Federal Communications Commission quickly garnered nearly 20% of what it was hoping to generate from Auction 97, with more than 1,000 licenses attracting bids totaling nearly $1.8 billion.
As is customary in spectrum auctions, the bigger markets generated the most...
The Federal Communications Commission is set to begin its second wireless spectrum auction of the year this week, with 70 bidders officially qualified to participate in Auction 97.
Those participants will be throwing money at a total of 65 megahertz of spectrum in the 1.7/2.1...
The already contentious net neutrality issue became even more so this week as the president laid out his thoughts on the subject, which drew threats of legal action from at least one telecom company.
President Barack Obama this week seemingly threw his support behind the Federal...
