The last remaining court challenge to the FCC’s white space order was withdrawn Monday when the wireless microphone industry formally dismissed its petition for review of the regulations. The cancellation of the suit removes the last legal hurdle for the regulations, which allow devices to use vacant spectrum between television channels. The white space spectrum […]
Telecommunications
GCI appoints new COO
General Communication Inc. (GCI) said that Greg Chapados is succeeding Wilson Hughes as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Chapados joined GCI in 2006 as senior vice president and served as lead on several strategic initiatives for the company, including the acquisition and integration of the United Companies, which led to the deployment of […]
Execs, equity firms buy out Wave Broadband
WaveDivision Holdings, which operates cable operator Wave Broadband and data provider Astound Broadband, is being sold to two private equity firms and members of its management team. GI Partners, Oak Hill Capital Partners and WaveDivision CEO Steve Weed announced the deal late Friday afternoon. While financial terms weren’t available in Friday’s press release, Dow Jones […]
Comcast beefs up TV Everywhere stable
Comcast has added in live streaming from Turner Broadcasting System’s CNN and HLN news networks, as well as Cinemax’s Max Go app, to its stable of TV Everywhere offerings. Comcast customers that have Cinemax as part of their video packages can now access the content for free via any broadband connection in the nation with […]
Boxee makes move to the cloud
Boxee is making a foray into cloud services with an iPhone app designed to make it easier to share videos with friends and family than it is to do so on YouTube. The Cloudee app, now in a beta trial, lets users upload videos to network-based storage, organize them into collections and share them with […]
Clearwire links up with regional ops, joins RCA
Clearwire signed up with the Rural Cellular Association (RCA) today, citing “many of the same advocacy concerns” as the trade group’s members. The WiMAX operator is one of a number of larger wireless providers over the past year to join the RCA, which has positioned itself as willing to take on AT&T and Verizon Wireless. […]
AT&T, rivals square off on interoperability
AT&T and its smaller competitors faced off on whether the lower 700 MHz band should be made interoperable in statements filed with the FCC late Friday, the deadline for the first round of comments on the issue. The FCC is considering a proposal to collapse AT&T’s Band Class 17 – comprising the lower 700 MHz […]
C Spire sues AT&T over alleged collusion
C Spire is suing AT&T and two of its vendors for allegedly colluding to manipulate the LTE standards process so it and other regional operators would be prevented from building out their networks. The antitrust suit takes before the court lower-tier providers’ longstanding belief that AT&T purposely manipulated the 3GPP into creating a class for […]
T-Mobile report slams VZW’s use of spectrum
A new study conducted by Roberson and Associates and commissioned by T-Mobile USA refutes Verizon Wireless’ claim that it is the most efficient of the major U.S. carriers in its use of spectrum. In fact, the study, which T-Mobile presented in a report to the FCC, concludes that when certain “corrections” were taken into account, […]
Bright House TV App up and running on iPhone, Android devices
After launching on iPads last year, Bright House Networks’ app for live streaming in customers’ homes is now available on iPhones and Android devices that use the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Bright House Networks launched its Bright House TV App in October of last year on iPad devices and now supports all three generations […]