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AOM Not Part of Incentive Auction Framework

Sources Confirm Optimization Model Not Part of Draft Proposal Scheduled for FCC Vote on Friday
By: John Eggerton Sep 25 2012 - 12:34am
Sources Confirm Optimization Model Not Part of Draft Proposal Scheduled for FCC Vote on Friday

 

Multiple FCC sources confirm that when the commission issues a spectrum incentive auction notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), scheduled for a vote on Friday, Sept. 28, it will not include an allocation optimization model (AOM) of how the FCC proposes to repack TV stations into a post- incentive auction-depleted broadcast band.

FCC Stands Behind LightSquared Waiver Process

Witnesses Say Commission Acted Immediately on GPS Issues as soon as they were bought to its attention
By: John Eggerton Sep 21 2012 - 11:46am
Witnesses Say Commission Acted Immediately on GPS Issues as soon as they were bought to its attention

The chiefs of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology and International Bureaus plan to tell Congress Friday that the process that resulted in the FCC's grant of a waiver to LightSquared was fact-based and transparent, that they stand behind the work of their engineers and technical experts, and that the GPS industry did not raise concerns about interference until 2010, eight years or so into a decade-long proceeding.

No Commissioners Slated for FCC LightSquared Hearing

By: John Eggerton Sep 20 2012 - 4:20pm

 

FCC International Bureau Chief Mindel De La Torre and Office of Engineering and Technology Chief Julius Knapp are the only two witnesses slated for a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the FCC's handling of the conditional waiver to LightSquared, according to the committee website.

The hearing will look at how the FCC came to the January 2011 decision to grant a conditional waiver to LightSquared to use satellite spectrum for terrestrial mobile service.

Internet Powers Form Trade Group

Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Others To 'Relentlessly' Press Policy Issues
By: John Eggerton Sep 20 2012 - 4:15pm
Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Others To 'Relentlessly' Press Policy Issues

Broadcasters who have already been going toe-to-toe with the Consumer Electronics Association and CTIA: The Wireless Industry Association over spectrum issues face a new and powerful group lobbying for a broadband-centric future.

A passel of Internet powerhouses have banded together to form what they bill as the first trade association representing the Internet economy, The Internet Association.

TWC to Clear Clearwire Stake

MSO to Sell Shares at 88% Loss
By: Mike Farrell Sep 19 2012 - 12:44pm
MSO to Sell Shares at 88% Loss

Time Warner Cable said it will sell off its interest in Clearwire Communications at a significant loss, thus severing another tie in the ill-fated broadband consortium.
In Securities and Exchange Commission filings Sept. 14, TWC said it would sell its 46.4 million shares of Clearwire on the open market at $1.40 each, or about $65 million. That is 88% less than the $550 million the media giant originally paid for the shares in 2008.

LightSquared/FCC Hearing Set for Sept. 21

House Oversight Committee Wants to Talk about How Agency Handled Waiver
By: John Eggerton Sep 14 2012 - 11:41pm
House Oversight Committee Wants to Talk about How Agency Handled Waiver

The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee has scheduled a hearing Sept. 21 on the FCC's role in granting a conditional waiver to LightSquared to operate a terrestrial broadband network using spectrum authorized for satellite use.

Reps.: More Spectrum Needed to Keep Up with Booming App Economy

Hill Hearing witness: App Adoption Fastest in History, Outpacing TV, Radio, Computers, Electricity
By: John Eggerton Sep 12 2012 - 5:57pm
Hill Hearing witness: App Adoption Fastest in History, Outpacing TV, Radio, Computers, Electricity

In a House Commerce Manufacturing and Trade Committee hearing Wednesday on mobile and online apps, the focus was on jobs, but one of the messages from legislators was that more spectrum in needed for wireless.

Wireless Groups Announce New Specs

By: 2009-12-16 23:57:16 Dec 31 1969 - 8:00pm

Standards Would Ship HD Content Between Devices

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Motorola To Sell Wireless Infrastructure Unit To Nokia Siemens For $1.2 Billion

By: 2010-07-19 16:42:10 Dec 31 1969 - 8:00pm

Transaction To Occur Prior Motorola's Expected Split Into Two Entities

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CommScope Sells Wireless Test and Measurement Line To Finland's Anite

By: 2011-01-10 14:52:52 Dec 31 1969 - 8:00pm

Cable and Telecom Infrastructure Vendor in the Midst of Deal to Go Private

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