Just as we're all getting ready for Verizon Wireless and the other big winners of the recent 700Mhz spectrum auction to light-up their newly acquired spectrum for wireless broadband duty, the Federal Communications Commission is considering auctioning another 25Mhz swath of spectrum in the AWS III spectrum. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin put forth a proposal to [...]

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 [...]