Although many initiatives have been launched in both the public and private sectors, there has been a lack of consistency, integration, regulations and, most of all, capacity to respond to the specific needs of schools and their teachers in their day to day work.

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In late June, Verizon Wireless announced an agreement with a subsidiary of T-Mobile USA Inc. to exchange spectrum in the AWS band in specific markets to meet LTE capacity needs and enable LTE expansion.

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As long as the FCC fails to inject major amounts of spectrum into the marketplace, or strongly hints that future spectrum could be off limits to carriers with specific spectrum portfolios, the agency leaves companies facing capacity shortages in the near term with no solution other than secondary market purchases or to raise retail prices.

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