North Carolina Launches White Space Network

The world’s first commercial White Spaces network launched Thursday in North Carolina. So far, the FCC has only approved one white spaces device — a 1.5-lb. rectangular-shaped radio from Florida-based KTS Wireless. The KTS device, used in the Hanover NC network, is a small, last-mile, transmitter. It uses the company’s frequency agile rad…
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AT&T blasts Q4 record with 9.4M smartphone sales, 7.6M iPhone activations

AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) reported a stunning 9.4 million smartphone sales in the fourth quarter, up nearly 60 percent year-over-year and nearly double its smartphone sales in the third quarter. The figure seems to prove once again that the operator’s success in the smartphone a…
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Apple: Boom Time

Apple had its best quarter yet, with profit of $ 13.6 billion and revenues of $ 46 billion – more than double its year-ago quarter, making it the second largest U.S. company by market cap. It now also has $ 97.6 billion in its cash reserve. LightReading has some of key points of the company’s first-quarter earnings call, [...]…
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Did OnStar contribute to Verizon’s 490,000 wholesale customer losses in Q4?

Although Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) added a total of 1 million net connections in the fourth quarter, the company also said it lost 490,000 wholesale and other connections in the quarter and it attributed those losses in part to a decline in telematics customers.  W…
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T-Mobile USA Getting Spectrum from AT&T

AT&T and T-Mobile USA have formally filed with the FCC to transfer some of AT&T’s AWS spectrum to T-Mobile. The spectrum transfer is a condition of the breakup fee stemming from AT&T’s failed $ 39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA. Altogether 128 geographic bands are being transferred, some at 2.1GHz and others at the less-…
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Clearwire nabs LightSquared customer Simplexity as an MVNE partner

Mobile virtual network enabler Simplexity will resell Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) services and be its preferred MVNE partner and preferred provider of third-party branded services. Simplexity is also a customer of wholesale LTE provider LightSquared, but Simplexity said the Clearwire de…
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Verizon-Cable Deal: Too Cozy?

Verizon Wireless and its cable partners are willing to give U.S. communication regulators confidential details of their agreement, but objected to a request for information from Sprint Nextel, DirecTV , T-Mobile USA and others, reports the Chicago Tribune. In a meeting last week with the FCC, Verizon Wireless and its partners argued that commercial…
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LTE Situation Report

The Global Mobile Suppliers Association reports that there are now 269 LTE-enabled user devices, manufactured by 57 companies. It’s a six-fold jump in six months. The GSMA also noted the number of LTE-enabled tablets has doubled in the past six months. Earlier this year, the GSA reported that 49 operators had launched LTE networks. Some [...]…
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T-Mobile could net $3B from tower sale; Nokia added to Microsoft’s Bing maps

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AT&T Fears FCC’s Incentive Auction Plans

AT&T and the FCC are locked in an increasingly contentious battle over proposed rules for incentive auctions of broadcast TV spectrum, reports Fierce Wireless. In a blog post clarifying its position, Robert Quinn, AT&T’s senior vice president-federal regulatory, said the FCC shouldn’t limit participants in auctions of unused telev…
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