Just what does AT&T plan on doing with all that 700Mhz B-Block spectrum (from the 700Mhz FCC auction) and that valuable swath of 700Mhz C-Block spectrum (from Aloha Partners)? It looks like AT&T is going to use the fresh-off-the-grill spectrum to launch its own 4G LTE mobile broadband network.The additional spectrum firmly plants AT&T at [...]

Well lookey lookey who came away with the cookie(s). The FCC has just revealed details on the winners of the recently ended 700Mhz spectrum auction, and it looks like industry heavyweights AT&T and Verizon Wireless are walking away with the biggest slices of 700Mhz-cake. As expected, Verizon Wireless managed to wrangle the highly sought-after and talked-up [...]

Welp, that's the game, folks. After almost two months of anonymous bidding, the FCC has closed the 700Mhz spectrum auction. In all, $19.6 billion was put up for the 1,099 licenses that spanned the 700Mhz spectrum. Telecom industry giants like AT&T, Verizon, and Google duked it out with 211 other companies to scramble for additional [...]