Utilities

Dish's plans to use satellite spectrum for wireless network approved by FCC

4g Dish Network has spent the majority of 2012 waiting for a decision from the Federal Communications Commission on whether or not it can use some spectrum that it owns to build out a wireless network. Today Dish finally got its answer, as...

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Sprint rumored to have floated idea of network partnership to Dish

News We've heard quite a bit about Dish Network's aspirations to break into the wireless business, and today a report is claiming that a new method for Dish to get into mobile may have presented itself. Sources speaking to Bloomberg claim that...

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T-Mobile 1900MHz HSPA+ service officially activated in three new locations

3g Ready for more Magenta-flavored news, T-Mobile folk? That's precisely what we've got for you this afternoon, as T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray took some time on stage during the Detusche Telekom Capital Markets Day 2012 event today to name a...

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AT&T and T-Mobile to open roaming in NY and NJ for users of both carriers affected by hurricane

News AT&T and T-Mobile today announced that they've agreed to enable roaming on their networks for customers of both carriers in parts of New York and New Jersey that've been heavily impacted by Hurricane Sandy. This will allow users to access...

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LightSquared submits new network plan to FCC

4g LightSquared has had a bit of a rough go so far in its attempt to build out a mobile broadband network, as there were concerns that its spectrum could interfere with GPS systems. The company isn't done trying to gain approval from the...

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Verizon's AWS spectrum acquisition officially approved by the FCC

News Looks like Verizon might have a bit of celebrating to do tonight, as the FCC as officially approved the carrier's acquisition of AWS spectrum from a group of cable companies. Unsurprisingly, the FCC's stamp of approval comes with some...

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Verizon's AWS spectrum acquisition to be approved by the FCC and Department of Justice

News Reports have been coming out in recent weeks claiming that the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice were close to approving Verizon's proposed AWS spectrum acquisition from various cable companies, and now that's...

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Verizon AWS spectrum deal reportedly due to be approved soon after companies agree to compromises

News Last month we learned that the U.S. Department of Justice was holding up Verizon's proposed acquisition of AWS spectrum from several cable companies over concerns with the side portions in the agreement, which involve cross-marketing deals...

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AT&T to shut down its 2G network by 2017

3g Have you made any plans for the year 2017 yet? Well AT&T has, as it's revealed that it plans to shut down its 2G network by 2017. That information comes from an SEC filing made by the carrier today, in which AT&T explains that it plans to...

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AT&T working to refarm 2G spectrum in New York City for its 3G and 4G networks

3g Good news for AT&T customers located in New York City, as the carrier today confirmed that it's begun repurposing some of its 2G spectrum in NYC to be used for its 3G and 4G networks. AT&T says that the spectrum refarming will help its...

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FCC extends review period for Verizon's AWS spectrum deal

News The saga of Verizon's proposed AWS spectrum from a handful of cable companies continues today. The FCC has revealed that it's extended its informal 180-day period to review the deal by a full 21 days, which is the result of Verizon and the...

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AT&T, T-Mobile AWS spectrum transfer approved by the FCC

At&t - T-Mobile Acquisitio As part of the break-up fee that AT&T will be giving T-Mobile after the death last year's proposed acquisition involving the two companies, AT&T agreed to hand over $3 billion in cash and $1 billion worth of spectrum to T-Mobile. Three...

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T-Mobile CEO doesn't feel Verizon's 700MHz spectrum sale is enough to reduce concerns over AWS deals

News Last week Verizon announced that it'd be holding a sale of some of its 700MHz spectrum, but only if its proposed acquisition of AWS spectrum from a handful of cable companies is given the green light. However, it seems that T-Mobile isn't...

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Verizon to hold sale of 700MHz spectrum if its AWS spectrum purchases are approved

News Verizon has announced plans to put some of its 700MHz A and B block spectrum licenses up for sale, but only if its purchases of AWS spectrum from SpectrumCo, Cox and Leap Wireless are given the green light. The carrier explains that if it...

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FCC to investigate 700MHz interoperability, may allow Dish to build LTE network

4g A couple of interesting tidbits of news have come out of an FCC meeting that took place this morning. First up, the FCC has said that it'll begin looking into the possibility of reassigning the 2GHz band that's currently classified as...

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Virgin Mobile service returns after data, text outage

News Good news for Virgin Mobile customers this morning, as the carrier has reported that service has been restored following an outage that hit yesterday. The outage affected both text and data services nationwide, but Virgin now says that the...

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FCC asks Verizon for more information on its spectrum needs

News Last month we saw Sprint, T-Mobile and several other groups ask the FCC to put Verizon's purchase of AWS spectrum from a handful of cable companies on hold. The agency hasn't gone that far, at least not yet, but it has asked Verizon to...

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Sprint, T-Mobile ask FCC to pause its review of Verizon spectrum purchase

News We already knew that there were some folks that aren't totally thrilled with Verizon's planned purchase of spectrum from several cable companies, and now a large group of firms have asked the FCC to pause its 180-day review of Verizon's...

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T-Mobile, others want the FCC to block Verizon's cable company spectrum purchase

News Back in December, we learned that Verizon had agreed to drop a total of $3.9 billion on spectrum from Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Cox Communications. It seems that there are a few other carriers that are not...

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Nokia Siemens Networks HSPA+ Multiflow allows a device to connect to two cell sites at once

Mwc 2012 There will be plenty of companies showing off their wares at Mobile World Congress later this month, and today Nokia Siemens Networks announced what it has up its sleeve for the big show. Called HSPA+ Multiflow, the technology allows...

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"Are outages like this acceptable in 2012?"

Jorge Luis Guerra It's called WiFi guys.

Corster Sharp im in virgin mob uk

Joel Williams is it acceptable for blogs to ask braindead questions in 2012?

Marvin Jose Figueroa I have VM AND YEA IT SCRWED MY DAY UP WIT THE TXTS....ALL THE TXT MA FRIENDS SENT DURING DA DAY CAME YO ME DURING DA NITE SMH

Ryan Rampersad I was affected by that outage, not significantly, but it still happened. In the two and half years I've had Virgin Mobile, this is the third time I think they had any real down time. For what I pay for it, it's not a big deal and email on wifi still worked, so it wasn't such a big deal.