U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) used a special Town Hall session hosted by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Wednesday to issue a call for both new patent legislation and immigration reform to help drive capital investment and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
A US appeals court Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional a "Net Neutrality" rule that bars broadband Internet providers from blocking or playing favorites for online services. The court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission ...
Sprint majority owner SoftBank plans to buy a majority stake in T-Mobile through Sprint with the apparent intent to combine the two carriers, Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported. The plan would a merged entity on a better competitive ...
Mobile carriers are opposed to the plan for a smartphone ‘kill switch’ that would render smartphones inoperable after they are stolen, claiming that it could be misused by hackers to block critical services. New York ...
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The bike industry likely will never tally all the delays and extra costs that resulted from the federal government shutdown that ended Thursday. Many shops lost sales as local federal workers were out of work, and many businesses dependent ...
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Amazon is believed to be testing a new, pervasive wireless network in Cupertino, California. According to Bloomberg, which says it has spoken to those close to the project, Amazon has been working with spectrum owned by satellite ...
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AT&T plans to acquire Leap Wireless, operator of the Cricket prepaid mobile service, in what would be the latest consolidation of the U.S. mobile industry. AT&T announced late Friday it has agreed to acquire Leap for $15 per share, nearly ...
Tags: Computer Products, mobile
SoftBank plans to invest $16 billion in capital improvements at Sprint in the next two years, CEO Masayoshi Son said days before the acquisition closes on Wednesday. Separately, as expected, Clearwire's shareholders on Monday approved ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved the $21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint by Japanese telecommunications group Softbank, saying it promises to bring consumers faster and more advanced wireless broadband Internet ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved for public use a Google database that shows so-called spectrum white spaces available for mobile broadband devices. The FCC this week announced that its Office of ...
T-Mobile said Friday that it has signed an agreement to buy 10MHz of Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) wireless spectrum from U.S. Cellular for $308 million in cash. The spectrum is meant to improve and expand T-Mobile's existing 4G LTE ...
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Sprint shareholders Tuesday set the stage for a potentially massive change in the wireless carrier competitive landscape by approving SoftBank's bid to buy 78%of the company for$21.6 billion. Sprint can use cash from the Softbank deal to ...
Tags: Sprint, SoftBank, Clearwire, acquisition
Dish Network has dropped its offer to buy Clearwire, probably clearing the path for a strengthened Sprint Nextel to complete its takeover of the struggling but spectrum-rich mobile operator. Both SoftBank's US$21.6 billion acquisition of ...
Intel this year plans to sell a set-top box and Internet-based streaming media service that will bundle TV channels for subscribers, but its plans will likely face hurdles from the 800-pound gorillas of the streaming media market. In ...
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President Obama directed federal agencies to take new steps toward sharing their wireless spectrum with commercial operators in an effort to meet growing demands for mobile data services. Obama, in a memo published Friday, created a ...