The New York economic area license continues to be the crown jewel of the Federal Communications Commission's auction 96, and drew even further away from the rest of the pack on Thursday to end with a high bid of nearly $217 million.
Total bidding in...
The second day of five-round bidding in the Federal Communications Commission's H-block auction 96 ended with just 19 licenses still FCC-held, and a new bidding total of $781 million.
The 23 auction participants had declined to bid on 40 licenses by the end of Tuesday,...
Five rounds of Auction 96 bidding were held today, with the total bid for the H-block spectrum reaching nearly $630 million after 17 completed rounds.
Bidders continue to whittle away at the number of Federal Communications Commission-held licenses. All but 40 of the 176 available...
It was a busy day for the Federal Communications Commission's auction 96, with the H-Block bids now totaling more than $456 million after the three rounds of bidding held Monday.
At this point, 117 licenses have received bids, with 59 remaining FCC-held.
The license for the...
Bidders looking to snare H-Block spectrum hit the weekend having put up more than $400 million in potential winning bids as part of the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96.
Through three days and nine rounds, 111 licenses had picked up bids totaling $401.3 million, adding...
Looking back, 2013 was a year of transformation in which several major transactions enabled the carriers to reshape and reinforce themselves for a “Final Four” competition for leadership in the U.S. market.
Day two of the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96, also known as the H-Block, witnessed $85 million more in potential winning bids, driving up the total amount to just over $306 million. Each day of the auction at this point includes three rounds of...
Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--SK Telecom continued to push the...
The first day of the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96 included three rounds of bidding and a total purse of more than $221 million pledged for the licenses up for grabs. Of the 176 licenses up for auction, 78 had received a potential winning...
With mobile data use once again continuing on an upswing, averaging more than 60% annual growth, I predict that we are going to see mobile network operators worldwide looking even deeper
The Federal Communications Commission is set this week to begin auctioning off 176, 10-megahertz spectrum licenses in the upper 1.9 GHz band known as the H-Block. The auction is scheduled to start on Jan. 22, with 23 bidders qualified to participate.
Qualified bidders include a...
The Federal Communications Commission has put the finishing touches on ensuring interoperability across the lower 700 MHz spectrum band, announcing a modification to AT&T’s lower B- and C-Block licenses to require interoperability with the adjacent A-Block. The modification call for the inclusion of AT&T’s...
Get this: At this moment there is a spectrum auction happening not too far from where you are probably reading this. That is if you are reading this somewhere that is not “too far” from Canada, which is where that auction is happening.
NetZero followed up on previously announced plans to expand its mobile broadband service offering across Sprint’s CDMA-based 3G network. The expansion comes with the implementation of a five-year deal signed between the two parties last summer that is set to eventually include access to...
Globalive withdraw its hat from Canada’s highly anticipated 700 MHz spectrum auction just one day before the event was set to get under way. Globalive, which operates under the Wind Mobile brand in Canada, was the fifth previously qualified participant to forgo the proceedings.
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Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy!
--AT&T this week announced it would...
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
T-Mobile US may be known as the “un-carrier,” but just like regular carriers it needs spectrum to operate.
To fulfill that need, the carrier this morning announced a deal with Verizon Wireless to acquire highly-coveted low-band 700 MHz A-Block spectrum licenses for $2.365 billion and...
The advent of LTE technology has been transformational for the mobile industry. As carriers build out their LTE networks, users gain the benefit of a faster and richer user experience.
With apparently not enough on its plate, Sprint is reportedly looking at bringing back the Nextel brand to target enterprise customers as well as consolidate its prepaid operations under one brand, according to TechCrunch.
The story, citing un-named insiders at Sprint, said that the carrier...
In 2013, we saw the incumbents beginning to roll out or make progress in planning LTE roll outs to smaller towns and cities in rural America. This will catch fire in 2014,
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
Before we turn the page on 2013, we thought we would take a look back at the past 12 months by highlighting what we felt were the top 100 stories across the mobile space. Since it would be foolish to rank these in order...
LightSquared is hoping that the second time will be a charm as the bankrupt spectrum license holder and satellite communications provider has reportedly filed a second attempt to exit bankruptcy reorganization backed by a trio of investment firms.
Bloomberg reported that LightSquared has filed a...
