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AT&T Buys $2.5 Billion in 700Mhz Spectrum Licenses

AT&T's agreed to drop $2.5 billion into the pockets of Aloha Partners for a sizable chunk of the 700Mhz spectrum—12 megahertz worth covering 196 million people in 281 markets. It's the same frequency that the FCC will be auctioning off licenses to in just a couple of months. AT&T says they haven't decided what they're going to do with it yet—but honestly it seems like they'd have an idea of what they wanted to do with something they paid $2.5 billion for. More »

3:40 PM on Tue Oct 9 2007
By Matt Buchanan
8,095 views, 16 comments

Latest by MaxRC: 36 Meg for 1 day of pr0n must be some really low quality sh*t more »

ovaltine to the rescue

Verizon's In a Pissy Mood This Week; Mad at FCC and Bob Marley's Family

First, they're peeing on the FCC's auction rules for the 700mhz spectrum that Google and others want a chunk of to do potentially cool stuff with. They're suing to overturn the open-access rules that would force buyers of certain slices of the spectrum to allow any safe device to use it. For an encore, after pulling Bob Marley tracks his family objected to Verizon selling, "in light of" the family's statement that it's "disturbing that these companies refuse to give the musicians the respect they deserve," Verizon's promptly restoring all of the content tomorrow. Rowr. [NYT, NYT, Flickr]

2:30 AM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,162 views, 5 comments

Latest by UnnDunn: If Verizon doesn't like the rules for the 700MHz spectrum auction, they can feel free to not bid on it. Seems simple enough to me. more »