The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says it is “holding firm” on its plans to auction 280 MHz of C-band spectrum over the US in “mid-December”. The comment emerged in a letter sent by FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly to President Donald Trump on April 8th. Commissioner O’Rielly praised the president for his support the drive to […]
Law firm Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law has commenced a Class Action lawsuit against Silver Lake Group, BC Partners – both significant investors in Intelsat – and two other named defendants Raymond Svider (chairman at BC Partners) and Justin Bateman (a partner at BC Partners). The writ has been filed in the US District Court for […]
A report from analysts at Quilty Analytics says that despite OneWeb’s much-publicised Chapter 11 problems, all is not lost as far as Low Earth Orbit schemes are concerned. “OneWeb suffered from a significant first-mover disadvantage, a competitively inferior system (as a result of early design decisions and trade-offs), and inadequate financing (largely due to investor […]
South Africa’s media and telecoms regulator ICASA with slices of new spectrum in order to “kick start” the economy during the Coronavirus shut-down and to maintain services in this high-demand period. The spectrum is in portions of the bandwidth considered in the 700MHz, 800MHz, 2.3GHz, 2.6GHz and 3.5GHz bands. The spectrum is being allocated on […]
OneWeb’s lawyers told a New York bankruptcy court (by telephone) on March 31st that it is looking to sell its international satellite spectrum licences within the next three months. The hearing was the first in what is likely to be a long journey for OneWeb. Bloomberg News says that OneWeb is negotiating for a loan […]
US telco DISH is providing 20 MHz of AWS-4 (Band 66) and all of its 700 MHz spectrum to AT&T at no cost for 60 days. Last week, DISH began lending its complete 600 MHz portfolio of spectrum to T-Mobile. With these two agreements, DISH has activated most of its spectrum portfolio to enhance national […]
DISH is providing its entire portfolio of 600 MHz spectrum in the US to T-Mobile at no cost for 60 days. The step was taken as the nation responds to the spread of Covid-19, which has led to the closure of businesses, schools and large gatherings coast to coast. “DISH is proud to support Americans’ […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has confirmed how it will release important airwaves to help improve mobile broadband and support the rollout of 5G. To help improve mobile services and give more people access to 5G networks, Ofcom will release more mobile airwaves through an auction. This will increase the total amount of airwaves available for […]
Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC, has strongly defended the regulator’s plan for a public auction for C-band, and told the US Senate Financial Services Subcommittee that he was confident that the FCC’s plan would be accepted. One senate member (Sen Chris Coons, Dem-Delaware) asked Pai how certain he was that there would not be […]
The FCC has announced the conclusion of bidding in Auction 103, which made 3,400 megahertz of millimetre-wave spectrum available in the Upper 37 GHz, 39 GHz, and 47 GHz bands. The auction had a total of $7,558,703,201 in net bids, with 28 bidders winning a total of 14,142 of 14,144, or more than 99.9 per […]