AT&T is snapping up a handful of AWS, PCS and 700 MHz spectrum through separate deals with T-Mobile USA and Peregrine Spectrum. According to documents released by the FCC yesterday, Peregrine is selling AT&T three lower 700 MHz B-block licenses spanning Florida, Minnesota and Puerto Rico. AT&T uses that band for its LTE network. AT&T and […]
Sprint service aims at untapped MVNO customers
Sprint launched a new service on Monday aimed at bringing in new MVNO customers from the retail, hospitality and travel industries. The turnkey Mobile Broadband on Demand platform allows companies without prior MVNO experience to offer mobile broadband service on Sprint’s CDMA network and Clearwire’s WiMAX network. “We provide this turnkey mobile broadband solution to […]
Dish: We may have to sell AWS Spectrum
Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen pushed the FCC in a speech yesterday to pass rules allowing it to use its AWS spectrum for a mobile broadband network. Further delays could hamper its ability to compete with existing operators like AT&T and Verizon Wireless, Ergen said during a Wednesday speech at PCIA’s annual conference in Orlando, […]
Google raises estimate on Motorola restructuring cost
Overhauling Motorola Mobility is proving more expensive than expected for its new parent company, Google. The Internet search giant has increased its previous estimate on the cost of Motorola’s restructuring to $300 million and warned it could take an additional $40 million hit as it closes facilities and lays off workers. Google also said it […]
Clearwire may delay portion of LTE build
Clearwire said in a Monday regulatory filing that it may delay portions of its TD-LTE network. The company must roll out 5,000 TD-LTE cell sites by the end of next June to get a prepayment from Sprint for access to the network, which it plans to use to supplement its own FDD-LTE service. “However, our […]
LightSquared’s latest LTE plan: share Federal spectrum
LightSquared wants the FCC to let it share spectrum with the federal government under a new plan for its LTE network, which has been stymied by problems with GPS interference. The company proposed Friday to give up 10 MHz of spectrum located closest to the GPS band. Instead, it wants to pair 5 MHz of […]
Clearwire shares slide on TWC stock selloff
News that Time Warner Cable had begun selling off its shares of Clearwire sent the WiMAX operator’s stock sliding yesterday, a downward drop that continued today. Clearwire’s shares dipped about 6 percent to as low as $1.35 in morning trading before bouncing back to $1.41. Time Warner Cable said last week that it planned to shed […]
Dish satellite broadband set for Oct. 1 launch
Dish Network said today it will launch a satellite broadband service on Oct. 1 targeted at rural consumers with slow Internet connections. The service is based on a satellite launched by Dish’s sister company EchoStar earlier this year. The dishNet service will be available in both rural and suburban areas, but it will be more […]
AT&T’s WCS plans to get FCC green light
The FCC is poised to allow LTE service in the long-unused 2.3 GHz Wireless Communications Services (WCS) band, clearing the way for AT&T’s plan to use the spectrum for its LTE network. Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s office said Wednesday the agency would vote on revisions to its WCS rules at its Oct. 17 open meeting. The […]
Dish lashes out at Sprint AWS proposal
Dish Network has stepped up its offense against a Sprint proposal that it says could “severely jeopardize” its wireless plans. The two companies are fighting over the FCC’s proposed rule changes to Dish Network’s AWS-4 spectrum, 40 MHz of satellite spectrum it wants to use for a land-based LTE network. Dish cannot move forward with […]