The Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) has inked a deal with Boingo Wireless to provide its members with white-label Wi-Fi service. The agreement announced today allows carriers that are part of the CCA to offer access to Boingo Wi-Fi under their own brand. “With the ever-increasing demand on wireless networks, it is absolutely critical for competitive […]
FCC deflects criticism over LightSquared
FCC officials told Congress on Friday that the GPS industry should have raised concerns about interference long before it gave LightSquared the go-ahead for a wholesale wireless service in an adjacent band. The Commission is in hot water over its handling of LightSquared after it fast-tracked the company’s plan to launch LTE in spectrum next […]
AT&T buys San Diego WCS spectrum
AT&T continued its WCS shopping spree yesterday with the purchase of two licenses in San Diego, a key market in California. The spectrum will be used to supplement AT&T’s LTE network in the California market, where competitor Verizon Wireless launched LTE nearly two years ago. AT&T switched on its own San Diego LTE network in […]
MetroPCS: LTE customers nearing 1M
MetroPCS CEO Roger Linquist said today that the prepaid provider has nearly 1 million LTE customers, a number that places one out of every nine customers on its mobile broadband network. “We’re approaching 1 million on the LTE network,” Linquist said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference in New York. About 8 million of the […]
Sprint iDEN replacement hits 1M customer mark
Sprint said the push-to-talk service that is replacing its outgoing iDEN network now has more than 1 million customers. The Tuesday announcement came just hours after AT&T said it planned to launch its upgraded PTT service in November, a product aimed squarely at attracting Sprint customers migrating off iDEN. Sprint has been losing iDEN customers […]
Time Warner Cable sheds stake in Clearwire
Time Warner Cable plans to shed its entire 7.8 percent stake in Clearwire. The cable company’s exit from the WiMAX provider came shortly after it finished selling its AWS spectrum to Verizon Wireless. The deal allowed Time Warner Cable to resell Verizon’s cellular service, making its investment in Clearwire less attractive. Verizon’s LTE network spans […]
Commissioner: FCC has ‘fallen behind’ on spectrum promises
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said Friday the agency has “fallen behind” on a 2010 pledge to free up spectrum for the wireless industry. “The Commission has fallen behind schedule in meeting the goals set forth in the National Broadband Plan,” Pai said in a copy of a Friday speech before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce […]
House hearing set on FCC’s handling of LightSquared
House lawmakers have scheduled a Friday hearing on the FCC’s management of LightSquared’s botched attempt to build an LTE network. The Commission has been criticized for granting LightSquared a waiver for the service, only to block the company from moving forward with its plan a year later because of problems with GPS interference. The FCC’s […]
Isis scraps summer mobile payments launch
Isis has scrapped plans to launch its NFC-based mobile wallet before summer ends next week, delaying the debut of a product designed to provide AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA with an on-ramp into the potentially lucrative mobile payments space. “We’re working through a final punch list of things to ensure a great consumer experience […]
FCC to adopt ‘key’ parts of federal spectrum sharing report
The head of the FCC said Wednesday the agency will execute “key recommendations” of a government report that advocated spectrum sharing between the feds and commercial wireless operators. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the FCC will take formal steps to move forward with parts of the report by the end of this year. “This action […]