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Archive for the 'Spectrum News' Category

Dish Bids for Lightsquared Spectrum

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 21st, 2013

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 [...]

600 MHz Auction Speculation

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 6th, 2013

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 [...]

Public & Home-based Small Cells Promoted

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 3rd, 2013

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: No Need to Raise Sprint Offer

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 30th, 2013

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 [...]

Softbank Okays Sprint to Discuss Dish Deal

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 29th, 2013

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 [...]

UK Gears Up for Commercial White Spaces

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 26th, 2013

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. [...]