FCC Autonomy Under Fire

CEOs at Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA and other smaller carriers sent a letter to lawmakers on Wednesday, urging them to preserve the ability of the FCC to design airwaves auctions. The letter (pdf) was sent to the 20-member panel tasked with crafting a year-long extension to payroll tax cuts for 160 million U.S. workers by [...]…
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Free Mobile’s impact–we should have seen it coming


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Canada Goes LTE – 3 Ways

TELUS, Canada’s third largest wireless carrier, today announced that its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless service will be available on Friday, February 10. It will operate in 14 urban centres across Canada, including Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. The LTE Ovation MC679 dongle supports LTE AWS/700, HSPA/HSPA+ 850/1900…
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Vodafone’s Q3 hurt by weak performance in Italy and Spain

Vodafone missed its third-quarter revenue forecast as poor results from Italy and Spain weighed down the group and overshadowed  strong performances in Turkey and India.

For the quarter ending Dec. 31, the company said that its global revenues fell 2.3 per cent to £11.62 billion, with Vodafone’s European operations suffering a …
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Canada to Get Apple’s iTV?

Canada’s Rogers Communications, one of Canada’s largest mobile, cable tv, and DSL providers and Bell Canada (BCE), the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone and DSL Internet services in much of Canada, are in talks with Apple to become Canadian launch partners for its much-hyped Apple iTV, reports the Globe and Mail. Apple̵…
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Canada endorses Dish’s LTE Advanced network, but FCC still on the fence

Dish Network told the FCC that it has received approval from the Canadian government to secure spectrum from two of TerreStar Networks’ Canadian subsidiaries, and used the approval to press the FCC to give its own assent.

In a filing with the FCC, Dish said that Industry Canada, the Canadian governmental department that includes the Canad…
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White Space Show Down

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., urged the Internet community on Tuesday to rally to push Congress to free up more unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi and other new wireless technologies. “It’s going to take your voices and the voices of a whole bunch of folks similar to what happened a few weeks ago … to just rise [...]…
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Study: Some Kindle Fire owners disappointed in lack of 3G/4G capability

A new ChangeWave Research survey of Amazon Kindle Fire owners found some disliked the device’s lack of 3G/4G capability. When asked to name their top dislikes of the Kindle Fire, the majority (27 percent) said they disliked that there was no volume button, 21 percent said they didn’t like the Kindle Fire’s lack of a camera, 1…
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Super Streams for Super Bowl XLVI

When the New York Giants and New England Patriots take the field for Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium (WikiMapia) in Indianapolis, the eyes of over 100 million people around the world will be upon them. ArsTechnica explains how to watch the Super Bowl, on the biggest and littlest screens. Nearly [...]…
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Apple reverses ban on iPhone sales in Germany, but could stumble on iCloud

A German court ordered Apple to stop online sales of its older model iPhones and 3G-enabled iPads, but Apple managed to reverse the ruling within hours. The dust-up stems from a court injunction secured by Motorola Mobility in December after Apple failed to license Motorola wireless patents.

Apple’s iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, but…
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