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NewsGoogle launches white spaces campaign
Google is hoping public pressure will help it in its campaign to get the FCC to make white space spectrum available for unlicensed wireless Internet devices. The company today launched a campaign Read more...
M2Z asks FCC to reject more AWS-3 interference tests
M2Z Networks said it has submitted evidence to the FCC to confirm that no further interference testing is needed to auction off the AWS-3 spectrum, which will be designed for an operator willing to Read more...
New York Times: T-Mobile will be first with Android phone
The New York Times is reporting that T-Mobile USA will be the first operator to offer a mobile phone based on Google's Android platform. The newspaper, citing sources briefed on the company's plans, Read more...
Pressure mounting in white space debate
Lobbyists are getting Capitol Hill involved in the white space debate. Earlier this week eight members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin asking the FCC to Read more...
State regulators weigh in on ETF
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) is weighing in on the early termination fee debate. NARUC is establishing a working group to develop national standards to protect Read more...
Leap and others asks FCC to deny Verizon/Alltel merger
Leap Wireless along with a group of rural carriers and associations including the Rural Telecommunications Group, NTELOS, SouthernLINC Wireless, SpectrumCo, the Organization for the Promotion and Read more...
FCC asks appeals court to throw out E911 rules
The FCC has asked a federal appeals court to dump the enhanced 911 location accuracy rules, which were approved last November but have not yet been put into effect. The commission said that the Read more...
Motorola exec: FCC white space testing going well
The FCC's white space device field test, which started last month, is going very well-- at least for some companies. In an interview yesterday with FierceWireless, Steve Sharkey, Motorola's senior Read more...
Sprint/Clearwire to AT&T: public in favor of JV
Sprint and Clearwire wasted no time responding to AT&T's request to deny the planned joint venture between the two companies. Last week, AT&T said that the Sprint/Clearwire venture would Read more...
FCC says auction decision won't happen until September
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said on Friday that the commission won't make a decision on whether to re-auction the 700 MHz D-Block spectrum or to auction the AWS-3 spectrum until at least September. Read more...
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