The wireless spectrum auction is reaching an interesting stage: After 18 rounds of bidding that began one week ago, bids for the “C block” of nationwide spectrum reached $4.7 billion,…

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The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has released its draft code for participation TV offerings in the United States. It predicts an increase in these types of shows due to the…

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Ofcom is taking aim at networks once again, this time attacking the high cost of surfing the mobile web while abroad. The UK regulator warned that while it wanted to…

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The 700 MHz spectrum auction now has total winning bids of $6.1 billion, reports the NYT. The C block closed on Monday at $3.42 billion, an increase of $1.27 billion…

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The first week of the 700 MHz spectrum auction in the US has come to a close, with most blocks of spectrum being slowly bidded up but the D-Block—which is…

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Japan is one of the countries looking to filter the mobile internet “for the sake of the children”, and Infinita has some details of the proposed regulations: “As well as…

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The 700 MHz auction has attracted 1,849 bids totaling more than $2.4 billion in its first round, reports RCR News. Naturally, there’s no indication of who is bidding where, but…

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Thursday sees the start of the 700 MHz auction in the US, but there’s not going to be much news coming out until it’s finished—the FCC is keeping it as…

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The plans of EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding for further regulation of mobile pricing in Europe will be a tougher sell than capping the roaming charges, which passed into law…

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Japan will start licensing mobile phone “sommeliers” to help consumers through the thicket of increasingly complicated mobile functions as handsets get more and more advanced. AFP reports that the country’s…

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The UK’s voluntary code for mobile content could be replaced with more stringent rules following an upcoming review by telecoms regulator Ofcom. The Sunday Times reports that following complaints from…

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The incumbent telcos are likely to get most of the interesting licenses at next week’s US spectrum auction, according to analysts in this Dow Jones article. The general consensus is…

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The conventional view is that Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) participation in the upcoming 700 MHz auction isn’t actually about acquiring spectrum, but about advancing its vision of open wireless networks. With…

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After capping international roaming call costs, EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding has set her sights on a few other charges she considers excessive. Mobile data has come to her attention,…

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and O2 have attacked Ofcom’s plan to auction off spectrum for 3G services, because it involves taking some of their 900 MHz spectrum and letting the other…

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FCC Chief Kevin Martin has defended the upcoming auction sale against charges that due to the credit crunch it won’t raise the hoped-for amount of money, and bidding on the…

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The FCC has launched a rulemaking to determine whether SMS services and shortcodes are covered by the non-discrimination provisions of the telecom act reports RCR News. A bunch of consumer…

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A panel with politicians from the European Union, the United States of America and Japan produced a good debate about mobile TV and how it should be regulated. Naturally, David…

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy would tax mobile phone operators and internet service providers as well as the advertising revenues of private television channels in his radical new proposal to fund…

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This will cause a fair bit of head-scratching… Frontline, the company that was started specifically to bid in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction to build a network to share…

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The 700 MHz spectrum license auction, which begins later this month, was a big topic in the chat between FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro…

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Sprint (NYSE: S) and T-Mobile have weighed in on the debate over the so-called “white spaces” spectrum that’s in between frequencies used by TV broadcasters, urging the FCC to license…

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The European Commission has today finalised its Creative Content Online In The Single Market paper and will publish proposals for pan-continental digital content regulations by the middle of 2008, covering…

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The very systems that launched wireless networks 24 years ago will start going dark as soon as Feb. 18, freeing up more spectrum for digital mobile networks. The FCC approved…

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The deadline for making “upfront payments” in the 700 MHz spectrum auction is Friday, which will reveal how many of the companies which applied are truly serious about placing bids.…

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