Perhaps the third time will be a charm for Cox Communications. Earlier this week the cable company revealed some more details of its pending wireless deployment. The firm said it is going to build its own 3G network--using 1xEVDO Rev A technology--and use the wireless spectrum it has acquired by bidding in the 700 MHz spectrum auction and the AWS spectrum auction (in the AWS spectrum auc...

So we’re actually going to get some new competition as a result of the 700 MHz spectrum auction. Cox, a cable company with 6.2 million subscribers, will take its spectrum and build out a wireless network. They expect to be up and running in the second half of 2009, so about a year from now. Yet, that sounds a little fishy, doesn’t it? After all, doesn’t Cox need to go through the...

The FCC will vote today on the rules that will be placed on the unsold D-block spectrum from this year's 700 MHz spectrum auction. The D-block was reserved for a public safety network. The FCC has been mulling options ...

Cable provider Cox Communications revealed a little more about what it will do with its 700 MHz licenses that it won earlier this year in the 700 MHz spectrum auction. Speaking at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit yesterday, Cox President Patrick Esser said that the company will provide simple calling plans and it will integrate all its services into one device with...

The FCC has said it is going to attempt once more to build a nationwide public safety network with the unsold D block from the recent 700 MHz spectrum auction. The FCC has asked the public to comment on ...

More news off the back of the 700 MHz spectrum auction - licence buyers were forbidden from talking about their plans for their purchases until last week - with Verizon and AT&T have announced they're going to use spectrum to launch LTE (long term evolution networks). “In the future, AT&T's 700 MHz spectrum holdings will provide

Remember all the discussion over what the recent 700 MHz spectrum auction would yield for the mobile industry? Well, at least part of that question has been answered: Qualcomm is using its newly won spectrum to broaden the capacity of its MediaFLO TV service, after spending $558.1 million in the auction. The company said Qualcomm

New 700 MHz Licenses Will Broaden Content and Service Offering To More Than 68 Million Potential Consumers SAN DIEGO, April 03, 2008 - Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today announced that it has acquired eight licenses in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction at a total cos

The US could be getting another mobile TV service, according to The Financial Times. The paper quotes analysts as saying broadcaster Dish Networks “could be considering launching a mobile TV service to compete with the leading US mobile phone companies” after bidding at the US 700 Mhz spectrum auction and winning enough licences to “create

Now that the 700 MHz spectrum auction is over, Google has turned its attention once again to the "white space" unlicensed spectrum debate: In a letter to the FCC, Google pressed the government to ...