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Philadelphia's Spectrum to be demolished

AP — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:38:27 +0000

A longtime sports arena in Philadelphia is shutting down.Comcast-Spectacor chairman Ed Snider says the 42-year-old Spectrum will close at the end of the 2008-09 hockey and soccer seasons and be demolished.The arena had been used for Philadelphia...

NextWave shares soar on plans to sell spectrum holdings

AP — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:34:27 +0000

NextWave Wireless Inc. is looking to sell its vast holdings of licenses for U.S. airwaves, which are worth billions of dollars and could allow a new market entrant to create a nearly nationwide wireless network.The San Diego-based company said...

Verizon to Use Spectrum for Broadband

AP — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:39:18 +0000

Verizon Wireless said Friday it will use the spectrum it agreed to buy in the government’s wireless auction this winter to expand its data services.The company will pay a total of $9.36 billion for a nationwide spectrum footprint in...

ATandT Wanted Unrestricted Spectrum

AP — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:35:37 +0000

AT&T Inc. sought unrestricted portions of wireless spectrum in the recent auction by the Federal Communications Commission because they better complimented the company’s existing holdings, executives said Thursday.AT&T spent $6.64...

ATandT: We Wanted Unrestricted Spectrum

AP — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:44:55 +0000

Qualcomm Aims to Expand TV Service

AP — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:49:09 +0000

Qualcomm Inc. said Thursday that it will use the radio spectrum it won in a recent government auction to double the capacity of its mobile television service on swaths of both coasts.The wireless chipmaker paid $554.6 million for the old UHF...

Qualcomm Gets 8 FCC Licenses for $558M

AP — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:56:02 +0000

Qualcomm Inc. said late Thursday it bought eight licenses for a total cost of $558.1 million at a Federal Communications Commission 700-megahertz spectrum auction.Qualcomm purchased licenses in the “E block” covering the Boston, Los...

ATandT Completes Bid in FCC Auction

AP — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:53:17 +0000

AT&T Inc. said Thursday it completed successful bids for prime “B block” spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission auction.The communications company said the complementary nature of the spectrum AT&T acquired through...

Dish Network Spectrum Buy Perplexes

AP — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:37:58 +0000

A mystery surrounds satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corp.’s surprise, $712 million winning bid in the government’s recent auction for radio spectrum reclaimed from television stations.Will Dish start a mobile video service? Will it...

Spectrum Auction Raises $19.6 Billion

AP — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:57:25 +0000

Bidding has closed on a record-setting government airwaves auction, with the total amount pledged reaching nearly $19.6 billion. But enthusiasm in the result was tempered by doubts concerning the future of a proposed emergency communications...