We know, you're just dying to say this is a complete shock, but we're here to inform you that it's not. If you'll recall, Cox dug deep to snatch up a decent block of spectrum in this year's 700MHz auction, and it even went so far as to promise a differentiated product that would eventually integrate with its other content and services. Sure enough, it's keeping its wo...

As it promised it would, Cox went big in the glitzy 700MHz auction a few months ago, coming away with a nice chunk of spectrum valued at some $304 million. That amount of outlay is nothing to sneeze at -- and it sounds like Cox is fully prepared to take the investment seriously, with president Patrick Esser commenting this week that his company intends to invest over half a billion dollars into th...

What started as a hard 45MHz limit enacted back in 1994 to ensure that there was enough spectrum to go around in every market was first raised, then eliminated, then later changed to a somewhat more toothless guideline used for analyzing proposed mergers, and rural carriers are pretty fired up about it. Following an absolutely dominating performance by the big boys in this year's 700MHz auction, t

Just beneath the slick advertising from the major carriers and CITA, in the aftermath of the recent 700MHz auction, and with LiMo and Android battling for OS of choice, Whew!, there are many battles being fought on many fronts. Here is a short list of battles currently being waged: 1. The federal government is taking a hard

Thought that the 700MHz auction was the last chance for an all-new US carrier to emerge? Think again. Turns out that NextWave, the company behind the TDtv mobile television standard among other things, has itself a nice little collection of US spectrum that it claims covers something on the order of 251 million Americans -- and it's retaining professional help to shop the package around. These air

Google's plan in the 700MHz auction drama was never much of a secret: it was always assumed that the search giant would bid enough to trigger the open-access provisions, but wasn't really interested in winning, and sure enough, the company confirmed that strategy when the bidding wrapped up. Of course, news travels slow in our nation's capital, and word of Google's dastardly plan to make sure the

All five members of the Federal Communications Commission appeared before Congress Tuesday (witness list) to testify about what went wrong with a key aspect of the agency's recently completed 700MHz spectrum auction, and to hear lawmakers' views of what to do next. Kevin Martin, the commission's Republican chairman, was credited by lawmakers for the fact the

Carriers have been making some strong strides in the direction of open access, and the recent 700MHz auction was a particular win for consumers, but the FCC isn't quite ready to go whole hog here. The commission has turned down Skype's request that the FCC expand 1968's Carterphone landline ruling to apply to the mobile industry, which would mean that operators would be required to let any device

As you may know, the FCC has retired a large portion of the spectrum that has been dedicated to analog, the now famous 700mhz spectrum or “C” block. This is prime real estate for wireless providers and there were many bidders. The smoke has cleared and Verizon has emerged the winner, with a bid of

Verizon Wireless emerged as the big winner today in the FCC's 700 MHz auction, as the carrier won nearly all of the licenses on a coveted chunk of open-access spectrum.