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DISH Grabs Spectrum, Cable Goes South
So Charter has purchased the "cable television systems from US Cable of Coastal Texas, LP serving, in aggregate, approximately 16,000 customers in Missouri, including the communities of Hannibal, Moberly and Mexico," according to The Mexico Ledger. TDS parent, Telephone...
VZW and the Open Spectrum
In the 700 MHz FCC spectrum auction 73, Google 's involvement insured that the spectrum would be Open Access. ATT ducked out of that auction to buy 700 MHz spectrum from Aloha Networks instead. VZW won $9B worth of Googlized spectrum....
All Those in Favor
The Benton Foundation notes that there are over 10,000 comments to the FCC about the ATT/T-Mobile merger. Unions and relatives are competing against consumer groups for the robo-comments.Meanwhile, MetroPCS officially opposed it, but wants to buy all the assets that...
The ATT-T-Mobile Merger Rumors
Originally I had heard that the break-up fee was $3B, which meant (to me) that this deal was going to go through. Then there were reports it was $6B, which means there is no stopping it. (And let's not forget...
More Spectrum, More Spectrum
At CTIA today for the CEO Panel, AllThingsD quipped, "A lot of carbon dioxide being expended at CTIA talking about how spectrum is the industry’s oxygen." Just so you know, they HAVE spectrum. They horde spectrum. What they don't do...
The Big T
AT&T announced yesterday that they were buying T-Mobile from its parent, DT, for $39B. There are so many losers in this combination I don't know where to begin! First, generally consumers lose as Ma Bell hordes even more spectrum. T-Mobile has...
Quick LTE Thought
So yesterday during the keynotes, @tomkeating tweeted “4G and LTE won’t solve bandwidth problem - said Charles Vogt at #ITEXPO”. I think that LTE and 4G are just marketing ploys. Its still physics. At the end of the day, new...
Bits and Pieces
The TCA has over 370 agent members now. Certification is underway. Are you becoming a Certified Telecom Professional? STS Telecom and Saturn Telecommunications became part of Deltacom today, which is now EarthLink Business, according to an FCC filing. STS in its...
Not So Shocking News
The FCC approved the merger of Comcast and NBCU (announcement pdf here) “with conditions and enforceable commitments”, whatever that means, since its enforcement history has been simply laughable in fostering any competition at all.“As part of the merger, Comcast-NBCU will...
Let's Clear Up AT&T 4G
So AT&T bought more 700 MHz spectrum; this time from Qualcomm for almost $2B. This was Qualcomm's spectrum from its FloTV project that used analog TV spectrum. In 2007, AT&T skipped the FCC spectrum auction to pay $2.5B for...
Satellite Spectrum is Beachfront Property
Satellite sprectrum for broadband is a polarizing topic. HughesNet, WIldBlue (ViaSat), Skyway USA, StarBand and others have launched but can’t hit scale. Between rain fade and line of sight issues, there is the perception that it is not as dependable...
