WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission has kicked off the agency’s first spectrum auction in four years, an AWS-3 auction offering 200 5G-grade spectrum licenses that have lain fallow for ...

Efforts are continuing on Capitol Hill to give the FCC the authority it needs to share spectrum auction proceeds with TV licensees that are willing to give up the spectrum to broadband interests ...

The future of the internet is becoming increasingly more mobile. Cars, remote patient monitoring devices, and smart houses all run on some form of wireless internet. Even most consumer-facing ...

What if you threw a spectrum auction and nobody came? That sounds like an absurd question as the seemingly endless AWS-3 auction grinds toward its 98 th round of bidding, but stranger things have ...

Authorization for spectrum auctions was not part of Congress's debt ceiling agreement that will be voted on, but it could still become part of a broader legislative plan to generate more cash for the ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The Federal ...

Sprint announced that it will be sitting out of the FCC's planned 600 MHz incentive auction that will be held in early 2016. While the carrier hasn’t participated in any major government auctions in ...

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will decide this week which mobile carriers will control billions of dollars worth of prime wireless spectrum scheduled to be auctioned next year. The FCC, ...