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Cox Wireless Service To Launch In March
In 2008's 700 MHz Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum auction, Cox Communications won 14 Block A and 8 Block B licenses for bids totaling $304 million. Through a joint venture with Sprint and several other cable companies, Cox also spent $2.37 billion to buy 137 AWS licenses. If those acquisitions didn't make it obvious, Cox is planning to become a wireless voice/broadband carrier. Unlike Comcast and Time Warner Cable however, Cox wants to do more than just resell existing service -- they want to build a wireless network.
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Will tower snafus decline as shot clock looms?
Depending on your locale, they may be more hidden or disguised, but make no mistake - cellular towers continue to multiple at a heavy rate. Providing the equivalent of a lifeline by which the entire wireless industry flows to and from, cell towers remain as controversial as ever.
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Bayville couple sues over cell towers
A Bayville couple filed a lawsuit Monday against the village, saying their civil rights were violated because Bayville allowed cell-phone antennas to be placed on the village's water tower.
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Google's mobile hopes go beyond Nexus One
One could be forgiven for assuming Google was about to knock over the smartphone market--two and a half years after Apple did just that--with one quick blow going into Tuesday's Android event with a phone designed by Google and sold at retail by Google. After all, that's what the Internet said would happen leading up to the event.
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Google wants to build 'white spaces' database
Google has asked the Federal Communications Commission to designate it as one of the administrators of a database for "white space" devices.
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Obama Administration Seeks More Wireless Spectrum
The Obama administration is calling on federal regulators to make more radio spectrum available for wireless Internet services so they can compete with broadband plans provided by the major phone and cable companies.
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U.S. Justice Department urges FCC to free spectrum
The U.S. Justice Department urged the agency that oversees the communications industry to free up unused spectrum as a way to make the high-speed Internet market more competitive.
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EL neighbors meet to fight cell tower plan
Neighbors on Brainard Road will hold an informational meeting on Monday to discuss an application filed with the Connecticut Siting Council to build a 170-foot cellular tower in their backyard.
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DEMOLITION OF A MOBILE PHONE MAST IN SANTA CRUZ
The mobile phone company Entel PCS , was ordered by the Commission of the Appeal Court in Rancagua ( Chile) to dismantle a mobile phone mast in the O'Higgins district in the town of Santa Cruz.
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Why the big phone companies are dogs
You'd think that 2009 would have been a great year for telecom stocks, right?
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European Union adopts new telecom rules
New rules regulating and unifying European Union telecommunication systems have officially become EU law following their publication in the bloc's official journal Friday.
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San Francisco considering cellphone warnings
Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to propose an ordinance that would require retailers to display radiation levels. Studies on the health risks are not conclusive, one environmental group acknowledges.
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Act Two for FCC's Meredith Attwell Baker
Meredith Attwell Baker may be a junior member of the Federal Communications Commission, but she's no stranger to technology policy debates.
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Base Station Deployments Fueled by WCDMA: In-Stat
Market research firm In-Stat (News - Alert) has a new report out showing that the demand for smartphones, regular phones, and wireless broadband services continues to drive the WCDMA base station market, despite a poor economy prevailing globally.
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AT&T strategist learns lessons of battlefield
In October 2006 Jim Cicconi, a senior executive vice president at AT&T who heads up legislative affairs, took his team of top regulatory lawyers to Gettysburg to teach them battlefield strategy.
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New Findings Mean Cell Phone Radiation Debate Will Rage On
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on October 26, 2009 that its 10 year study has shown a proven link between long term cell phone usage and increased risks in brain cancer and tumors.
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AT&T Mulls Plans to Deal with iPhone Data Demand
As iPhone users clog AT&T's data network, wireless chief Ralph de la Vega denies that tiered pricing impends and hails Wi-Fi as a solution-in-progress
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Maine To Consider Cell Phone Cancer Warning
A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute the claim.
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VZW to FCC: Early-termination fee policy is fair
Verizon Wireless said part of the reason its early-termination fees are more expensive for advanced devices is because the difference between what it pays manufacturers vs. what it sells devices for is twice as large for advanced handsets vs. other devices.
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Solving network capacity issues should be No. 1 priority for 2010
AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph de la Vega inadvertently created a firestorm last week during a UBS financial conference in New York when he mentioned that AT&T was studying consumer mobile data usage patterns and trying to come up with ways to encourage high-bandwidth users to modify their usage.
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U.S. Awards First Grants in $7.2 Billion Broadband Program
The Obama administration is set to release $182 million in initial awards from a $7.2 billion program to extend high-speed Internet to communities lacking the service."This is about jobs," Jared Bernstein, chief economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden said in a conference call yesterday. "These investments lay a new foundation for economic growth across the country."
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Verizon Wireless Prepares for the iPhone
Verizon Wireless is buttressing its network in the event Apple drops AT&T as the exclusive carrier of its popular smartphone.
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AT&T workers sue for $1 billion in overtime pay
AT&T Inc workers are suing the telephone operator for an estimated $1 billion in overtime payments in two class action lawsuits that say it is wrongly depriving about 5,000 employees of overtime pay.
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ATN Launches New Company to Run Verizon Wireless Assets
The new company, dubbed Allied Wireless Communications Corporation (AWCC), will locate its corporate headquarters in Little Rock, Ark. ATN says it will pump $200 million into the company, with plans to create at least 200-250 new jobs and more than 500 throughout the coverage area in six states: Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and South Carolina.
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Law would require cell phone warnings
Every cell phone sold in San Francisco could soon come with a label detailing the level of radiation you will be exposed to by using it and recommending a headset to avoid radiation exposure.
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