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Verizon slugfest continues as Sen. Kohl and T-Mobile respond
On May 24, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) sent a letter (.pdf) to Attorney General Eric Holder and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski asking that the agencies give careful scrutiny to Verizon's plans for the AWS spectrum it's planning to buy from a group of cable companies including Comcast, Cox and Time-Warner.
Greed, power and ego are costing you time and money
Expansion of LTE, and thus better wireless data connections for you, could be on hold for a very long time.
Verizon and T-Mobile face off to see who gets the LTE
Verizon and T-Mobile have begun a war of words that is certain to accomplish one thing if nothing else--delaying the build-out of LTE and likely raising the cost once it does happen.
Spotlight: The FCC goes before the Senate
The entire leadership of the Federal Communications Commission will appear at a Senate oversight hearing.
Verizon spectrum buy hits roadblocks
Any immediate expansion of LTE service by Verizon Wireless probably won't happen.
Solving the spectrum crisis: The federal government giveth, then taketh back
We face a transformative moment in the history of commercial communications. After nearly 80 years of licensing bands of radio frequencies in small increments, often at nominal cost to the licensor, the FCC has run out of new spectrum, at least within bands current technology can effectively use.
FCC, wireless carriers, Congress commit to solving epidemic of mobile device theft
The theft of mobile devices, especially smartphones, has grown by over 50 percent in major U.S. cities.
Strange war of words erupts over T-Mobile job cuts
T-Mobile announced on Thursday that the company is cutting its call center operations from 24 to 17. This will result in a loss of approximately 1,900 jobs at those call centers. However, T-Mobile
FCC moves to open more frequencies to wireless use
The Federal Communications Commission, in a series of moves announced at its public meeting March 20, will be opening up new spectrum for wireless activities and is launching a new Incentive Auction
LightSquared challenges FCC ruling to deny operation, cites Fifth Amendment
LightSquared, the Reston, Va. company that had planned to create a nationwide 4G LTE wholesale data network until its operations plans were denied by the Federal Communications Commission, has filed
