Articles tagged with: Verizon and Television

SureWest Sells 50 Towers to Global Tower

US communications holding company SureWest Communications has announced plans to sell its more than 50 owned communications towers to Global Tower Partners. The purchase price is based on tower cash flow and is payable with respect to commenced tenant leases. SureWest expects that the final aggregate purchase price will be in the range of $9.5 to $10.2 million.  more

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FCC Mulls Airwaves Sale by Region for Safety Network

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Federal Communications Commission, which is trying to create a national network for use by firefighters and police officers, is considering carving up a valuable block of soon-to-be-unused television airwaves and selling the parts to commercial partners by region.  more

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Sprint, Clearwire Promise Two-Way Internet Video

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel and Clearwire pledged Monday to deliver wireless Internet access to police, firefighters and schools at speeds fast enough to handle two-way video conferencing if federal regulators approve their merger.  more

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US Operators Ad Spend Passes $4 Billion in 2007

The US mobile phone operators spent some US$4.1 billion on advertising in 2007 reports a new study from Nielsen Monitor-Plus. This represented a twelve percent rise over the spend in 2006. The study found that over US$1.4 billion went on broadcast television - followed by cable television with US$816 million. Spot television picked up just over US$627 million.  more

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Failure of D-Block Spectrum Sale Partly Caused by Fees - FCC

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The requirement for lease payments of roughly $500 million helped contribute to the failure of a plan to have the private sector partner with public safety in building a national wireless broadband network for first responders, a report found.  more

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DISH Network, Alcatel to Test Mobile TV Technology

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- DISH Network wants to bring video service to not only its subscribers' televisions, but their cellphones too.  more

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AT&T 1Q Net Up 22% on Strong Wireless Growth

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- It's a tale of two extremes at AT&T. On one end, the wireless business continues to perform well, shrugging off economic worries and concern that the base of potential new customers is shrinking. On the other, the wireline business is losing ground, particularly as margins shrink.  more

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FCC Grilled By Congress Over Spectrum Auction

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- All five members of the Federal Communications Commission appeared before Congress Tuesday to testify about what went wrong with a key aspect of the agency's recently completed radio spectrum auction, and to hear lawmakers' views of what to do next.  more

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AT&T to Launch MediaFlo Mobile TV Service in May

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- AT&T said it would launch its long-anticipated mobile television service, powered by Qualcomm's MediaFlo technology, in May.  more

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FCC: Verizon Wireless has National License in C-Block

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- verizon Wireless was the biggest winner of communications spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission's recently concluded auction, the agency's chairman said Thursday.  more

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