What is DISH Networks going to do with their 6 MHz block, won in the FCC’s recent 700 MHz auction?
According to Unstrung, Frontier Wireless, the wholly owned subsidiary of Dish, bid about $711.8 million to snap up 168 licenses in the E-block during the recent 700 MHz auction. Their 8-K document filed Friday (March [...]
Will Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio merge? Regulators may be set to make a decision about the merger today, says a CNN Money blog.
Briefing.com”, a site that is widely followed by traders, is citing an unnamed report Wednesday morning saying that “XMSR-SIRI merger could receive approval from DoJ and FCC tonight.”
That [...]
According to RCR News, the FCC recently decided to better ascertain how competing 2.3 GHz band wireless services in the United States can operate without disrupting each other. Terrestrial satellite radio repeaters (DARS) and spectrum for 2.3 GHz Mobile WiMAX threaten to become another Nextel debacle, creating interference and disruption from battling services on neighboring [...]
United Launch Alliance successfully launched the fourth modernized GPS Block II R-M military NAVSTAR today from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, following a launch of the nation’s first Wideband Global SATCOM communications spacecraft last week, reports SpaceflightNow .
GPS is being modernized to offer new signals and codes. GPS 2R-M (for Modernized), provides two new military signals [...]
Bridge Ratings says traditional and satellite radio will take a significant hit in listening about a decade after WiFi and WiMax technologies are available in-car.
Bridge Ratings surveyed consumers and device manufacturers and projects that WiFi in-car should reach more than 50% of the U.S. population after nine years of market availability.
According to Bridge, [...]
CNet reports if the proposed merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio goes through, the combined company plans to offer packages of channels at reduced rates, including a 50-channel offering that’s almost half the price of today’s lowest-price option.
XM Satellite Radio (170 digital channels, 8 million subs) and Sirius Satellite Radio (130 digital [...]
Ibiquity’s HD Radio system, which encodes FM broadcasts as a digital pulse stream, has completed testing of a conditional access system in Chicago, transmitting traffic data services to radio listeners. “Conditional access” might be considered a euphemism for “pay radio”
According to their press release, Broadcast Electronics, Emmis Communications and NDS conducted the project, with involvement [...]
A battle over increased royalty payments for songs on online radio is moving into high gear, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Online radio companies are appealing a ruling that would double rates payable to record labels in three years. They are filing a motion to stay the ruling on the new rates, which are [...]
The New York Times reports Kevin Martin, chairman of the FCC, has privately questioned recent Congressional testimony that subscribers would both pay the same monthly rate and receive significantly more programming.
As he sought to sell the proposed merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio to Congress, and by extension to regulators like Mr. [...]
Sirius Satellite radio and XM Satellite radio are expected to announce a merger today, according to Google News and the NY Post:
UPDATE: IT’S OFFICIAL: XM announced the companies will be combined in a tax-free, all-stock merger with a combined enterprise value of approximately $13 billion, which includes net debt of approximately $1.6 billion. Sirius says [...]
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