700 MHz spectrum auction

Will Verizon's Public-Safety Partnership with Motorola Keep Competitors from Getting D-block Spectrum?

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:26:44 -0500

Full article: FierceBroadbandWireless
Lynnette Luna
Chalk one up for Verizon Wireless. Its alliance with Motorola to provide roaming to public-safety LTE networks may just be the nail in the coffin to keep the likes of T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel out of the 700 MHz D-block band.

CTIA Drops Open Requirement Lawsuits

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:16:33 -0500

Full article: InformationWeek
Marin Perez
The wireless trade group CTIA has dropped a lawsuit against the FCC that challenged whether the agency had the right to require spectrum-auction winners to allow outside devices run on the network.

CTIA Drops Lawsuit Against FCC's Open Access Rules

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:02:03 -0500

Full article: IDG News Service
Grant Gross
A mobile phone trade group has dropped a lawsuit against the U.S. FCC that challenged the commission's rules requiring open access on a block of valuable spectrum auctioned earlier this year.

Tell the FCC to Open Up White Spaces!

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:48:18 -0400

Full article: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hugh D'Andrade
The FCC is expected to decide what should be done with white spaces. These white spaces amount to vast, unused real estate in the spectrum, a territory that will only increase with the discontinuation of analog TV signals.

FCC Holds Meeting on Public Safety Communications and the D Block Auction

Stevie Converse — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:17:15 -0400

Full article: Benton Foundation
On July 30, the FCC heard from expert panelists regarding public safety interoperable communications and the 700 MHz D Block proceeding.

Voted Items at FCC Are Secret, FCC Says

Stevie Converse — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:13:18 -0400

Full article: Associated Press
John Dunbar
When the FCC votes on something at a public meeting, the document they are voting on isn't necessarily for public consumption, the agency said in a denial of an Associated Press FOIA request.

D Block Rides Again! And the NPRM Is Already Released!

Stevie Converse — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:33:38 -0400

Full article: Wet Machine
Harold Feld
With the announcement of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the reauction of the D block, it looks like the FCC is willing to look once again at mandatory wholesale as a possible model.

FCC Seeks Comment on How to Proceed with the Reauction of the 700 MHz D Block

Stevie Converse — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:09:46 -0400

Full article: Federal Communications Commission
The FCC is seeking public comment on how the Commission should proceed with the reauction and licensing of the 700 MHz D Block spectrum.

AT&T Defends 'Open' Wireless Network

Stevie Converse — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:58:29 -0400

Full article: The Register
Cade Metz

Verizon Promises to Honor the C Block Open Access Rules

Stevie Converse — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:46:03 -0400

Full article: Ars technica
Matthew Lasar