Leap Gains $1B In Spectrum At Auction: Bidding at the Federal Communications Commission's wireless spectrum auction closed after 161 rounds, with San Diego-based Leap Wireless International Inc. walking away with close to $1 billion in new spectrum between its two bidding entities. Frequencies previously used by the Department of...
SAN DIEGO -- Leap Wireless International, Inc. (OTCBB:LEAP), a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless communications services, today announced its expectations with respect to the service it plans to launch in Fresno, Calif. The Company currently expects that: --The network it plans to build in the Fresno...
Many U.S. wireless operators likely will breathe a huge sigh of relief this week if the FCC extends the Nov. 24 deadline for local number portability. The FCC is expected to vote Tuesday on Verizon Wireless' almost year-old petition to forbear on...
Leap Wireless International Inc. announced two transactions that involve selling and exchanging surplus licenses for cash and a license in Rochester, NY. Leap has signed a definitive agreement with AT&T Wireless PCS LLC to exchange six surplus licenses, including Lakeland, FL and portions of other spectrum...
WASHINGTON--The U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week to hear the FCC's appeal in the NextWave Telecom Inc. case brought gasps of surprise--and dismay--from all corners of the wireless industry, which was hoping the five-year battle over the company's disputed spectrum would at last be resolved. ...
After years of battling in the courts to hold onto its spectrum licenses, MetroPCS Inc., formerly General Wireless Inc., finally is in business. The startup, founded by telecom veteran Roger Linquist, began rolling out CDMA2000 1XRTT service in Stockton, Calif.; Miami, Fla.;...
SAN DIEGO--No one is sure how the NextWave Telecom Inc. saga will end. However, Harvey White, chairman and CEO of Leap Wireless International Inc., says one thing is clear: His company should be at the bargaining table if and when NextWave decides to settle with the FCC...
WASHINGTON--FCC Chairman Michael Powell constantly hammers away at his message of less regulation and letting the marketplace rule, and that's exactly what will happen in the long-debated case of calling party pays. Last week the FCC decided against adopting rules that...
WASHINGTON--The question over whether wireless customers will really want location-sensitive information, such as e-mail alerts on their phones, sparks intense industry debate. Whether the FCC should promulgate rules on location information practices is similarly contentious. It's a public policy debate that...
WASHINGTON--CITIA says it's useless, but several carriers want it to stick around for a few more years. The item: the spectrum cap. The forum: the FCC, which received comments on the possibility of lifting the cap--a move that could happen by the end of the year. ...
Telecom: Agency May Be 'More Business-Friendly' New technology and shifting customer preferences make constant, incremental changes in the wireless telecom world. A more abrupt shift -- at least for the United States -- is the arrival of a Republican administration in Washington, D.C. That changes things at...
By Malcolm Spicer, mpsicer@phillips.com The FCC's auction of 422 C- and F-block licenses ended on Friday with just one entrepreneur bidder unaffiliated with a major telco winning a major U.S. market license reserved for entrepreneurs. The auction ended after no new bids were made in the 101st round....
WASHINGTON--While the world awaits the final outcome of the seemingly endless process in Florida to pick the president of the United States, members of the wireless world are also awaiting a decision expected today about an F-block license for a market in you guessed it Florida....
HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER WASHINGTON--The Federal Communications Commission late Friday released the list of applicants to participate in the reauction of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.'s licenses, scheduled for Dec. 12. The FCC accepted 44 applications, including Alltel Communications ...
WASHINGTON-In what appears to be a win for bankrupt PCS carriers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans has ruled in favor of Metro PCS (formerly General Wireless Inc.) and against the Federal Communications Commission. The current...
The FCC reaffirmed Leap Wireless International Inc.'s fight to acquire PCS licenses reserved for entrepreneurial companies, or "designated entities." Like other licensees with ties to deep-pocketed parents, Leap's ability to meet the definition of an entrepreneurial entity came under scrutiny....
WASHINGTON--To sustain the spirit of its designated entity rule, yet recognize market forces, the FCC is considering a plan to carve up each 30-megahertz C-Block license into three 10-megahertz blocks. The commission wants to make two of the three blocks in large markets--2.5 million people or...
The FCC has approved Leap Wireless International's [LWIN] pending acquisitions of 11 licenses in Tennessee and one in Dayton, Ohio. The licenses will be used by Leap's U.S. subsidiary, Cricket Communications. Leap is acquiring the Tennessee licenses from Chase Telecommunications Holdings, which already is offering service under the...
Wireless communications carrier Leap Wireless International, Inc. (Nasdaq: LWIN) has announced that the Federal Communications Commission FCC has issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order, which conditionally grants Leap's applications to transfer four F-Block PCS licenses from AirGate Wireless, L.L.C., in North and South Carolina to Cricket Holdings, a wholly owned...
When the Federal Communications Commission began auctioning off personal communications services licenses in 1994, the intent was to introduce a new wave of competition into the wireless marketplace, which at that time usually was controlled by a c When the Federal Communications Commission began...
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