Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish Network, has made a $2 billion bid for radio frequencies from LightSquared , reports Bloomberg. Ergen has offered to buy the spectrum even though the Federal Communications Commission has yet to approve its use, according to the people, who asked not to be named because the deal hasn’t been shown [...]
Fierce Wireless reviews the big 600 MHz auction due next year, which will auction off as much as 120 MHz, between TV channels 30-50. The 600 MHz band promises to enhance LTE coverage with even better range than the current 700 MHz band. But the number of licenses put up for auction depends almost entirely [...]
Qualcomm’s chief technology officer, Mat Grob, pitched the idea of small, private cellular base stations this week, showing a base station small enough to be integrated into a set top box or home router. “There really is no alternative,”said Matt Grob, Qualcomm’s CTO, during a presentation at the Qualcomm On conference in Santa Clara, California. [...]
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said at a press conference in Tokyo (pdf presentation), that Softbank does not see a need to raise its $20 million offer, and it is a better option than Dish’s $25 million offer. Son said that when Sprint shareholders consider regulatory delays, breakup fees, transaction costs and synergy effects, SoftBank’s offer [...]
Sprint today announced that it had received from SoftBank a waiver to permit Sprint to enter into discussions with DISH for the purpose of clarifying and obtaining further information from DISH regarding its proposal made on April 15, 2013. The SoftBank waiver does not permit Sprint to provide non-public information to DISH nor does it [...]
The UK is gearing up for a White Space rollout next year, after their trial in Cambridge, with potential uses including rural broadband and machine to machine communications. Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards said in a statement on Friday: “Ofcom is preparing for a future where consumers’ demand for data services will experience huge growth. [...]
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