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The FCC is reportedly considering a plan that would require free wireless service from the winner of a future block of auctioned spectrum.

In a report featured in The Wall Street Journal the FCC is reportedly mulling over its chances of mandating a portion of an upcoming wireless auction be apportioned for free wireless services to all.

At this point there are few details worked out about what block of sp… Continue

Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts offers up some interesting tidbits for why the deal made sense

A nice piece in Unstrung offers interesting feedback from Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts on why his firm took an investment position with the new Clearwire.

The answer to me in short is good old-fashioned deal making. Roberts indicates that the wholesale arrangement he got out of the play was pretty sweet… Continue

Recent research by Ovum on behalf of the CTIA indicates that mobile broadband value to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product is very solid.

The Cellular Telephone and Internet Association released a study produced by Ovum that indicates a major impact on US GDP from the use of Mobile Broadband. The report projects that GDP impact will total $860 billion over the next 10 years; and that mobile broadband wireless revenues will surpass… Continue

Opinions vary but the public has plenty to say about what should be done.

From a report on RCR Wireless News comes early word of some of the responses that the FCC has received about what the heck to do with the unauctioned D-Block of 700 MHz spectrum. Proving somewhat that the collective wisdom of people should not be underestimated, many of the comments focus upon details of how the spectrum rules cou… Continue

The Vermont Telecommunications Authority is counting on a wireless approach to push broadband access out to rural Vermont.

Local newspaper reports in Vermont bring us news that the Vermont Telecommunications Authority has decided that a broadband wireless strategy is the best way to bring broadband speeds to rural and underserved parts of the state.… Continue