Money manager Mario Gabelli faces a suit for allegedly putting in sham bids at auctions of wireless spectrum.
Broadcasters may be asked to vacate wireless spectrum to make room for data networks.
The speed of the economy will continue to depend on broadband and wireless spectrum.
Wireless spectrum in particular is misallocated and in short supply where we need it most.
The FCC's auction of prime wireless spectrum could create new competition for broadband Internet.
Yet too much of our wireless spectrum remains in the grip of the broadcasting industry.
While earnings weren't spectacular, Google claimed a victory Thursday in the closely watched wireless spectrum auction.
If Alltel wants to grow, the government is planning to auction off more wireless spectrum licenses later this year.
Wireless spectrum auctions should be structured to foster competition and new market entrants.
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The recent Congressional approval for wireless spectrum auctions is a welcome relief for the carrier.
In 2007 the FCC adopted several of Wu's proposals in its design of a wireless spectrum auction.
Clearwire appears to be nearing the finish line on a sale of some of its wireless spectrum.
They're quick to point to technical problems opening up a prime chunk of wireless spectrum could create.
Google, to be sure, won't take this news lying down, as its recent bid for wireless spectrum exemplifies.
Wireless spectrum is a central resource in the digital economy, and a chief enabler of services like Netflix.
First, wireless telecommunications requires access to a finite resource in the exclusive control of the government: wireless spectrum.
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Also reportedly under discussion: T-Mobile buying wireless spectrum from Clearwire (CLWR) as an alternative to a Sprint deal.
Like many other European state-owned telecoms, it had foolishly forked over billions for 3G wireless spectrum a few years ago.
Verizon Wireless says it now has wireless spectrum in all of the top 50 metropolitan service areas in the United States.
The U.S. government makes available too little wireless spectrum for what could turn out to be tomorrow's fastest-growing industry: wireless Web networks.
The traditional policy of the FCC to make more wireless spectrum available has been to auction it off to the highest bidder.
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Today, the wireless spectrum available in the United States is controlled by both the FCC (commercial spectrum) and the NTIA (government spectrum).
Google will not only bid in the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming 700-megahertz wireless spectrum auction, but it will bid big, and win.
As far as the wireless spectrum is concerned, nothing has changed much.
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The telco has said multiple times that it is willing to divest assets, such as wireless spectrum, to win passage for the acquisition.
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With Verizon, you can expect single-digit growth from a diversified group of consumer and business offerings, plus a boost from added wireless spectrum.
UBS's Schachter warns that Google may even have to threaten to spend billions on its own wireless spectrum to get the carriers in line.
The new firm, to be called T-Mobile, will have access to more precious wireless spectrum and can streamline investment in a superfast 4G network.
After dominating the U.S. wireless spectrum auction for months, from influencing the terms of the auction to bidding, it looks like Google is off the hook.
If Google made a serious play for the wireless spectrum, the search company could sell ads to subsidize a service that Apple's customers could connect to.
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