FCC News

Joel Osteen, the pastor of Lakewood Church in Texas, who's weekly service attracts 40,000 people and a television audience of more than 7 million, has joined the white space debate and notified the... Read more >>

You have decided to bid on 10 MHz (5X5) of the 700 MHz spectrum. For $5 million a year, you can gain another 12 MHz (6X6) of adjacent spectrum. The only caveat is that the first responder community... Read more >>

It would be a non-news news story to say that Verizon is on track to spend $28.1 billion to acquire Alltel by the end of the year if it weren't for a tanking economy and a less-than-sureshot... Read more >>

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said yesterday that the agency will try to finish its review of Verizon's pending acquisition of Alltel as well as Sprint Nextel's joint venture with Clearwire by year-end.... Read more >>

Google co-founder Larry Page yesterday said 16,000 people have signed a Google-sponsored petition in support of using unlicensed white-space spectrum for broadband wireless. Page was speaking at an... Read more >>

The debate over whether the FCC should forge ahead with its plans to create a 25-megahertz swath of spectrum, known as AWS-3, is still festering. Proponent M2Z Networks issued a press release today... Read more >>

Proving once again that size really does matter--especially when you're lugging around a laptop and don't want to add an extra ounce if you can avoid it--Novatel Wireless is touting the fact that... Read more >>

In a strongly-worded letter to the FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, a Skype official complained that the major U.S. wireless carriers were all talk when it came to "open" networks, and that if the... Read more >>

Florida Atlantic University (FAU) officials have FCC approval to lease 24 of 26 unused broadband channels in its EBS spectrum to Clearwire for up to $173 million for the next 10 years. FAU has held... Read more >>

AT&T deployed assisted GPS technology throughout its network, paving the way for more enhanced location-based services. The carrier, which initially deployed a cell-site triangulation technology... Read more >>