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LightSquared to get FCC green light; spectrum compensation bill introduced

Mobile broadband is getting federal attention from two different perspectives. First, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller has reintroduced legislation that would compensate

XO fills in fiber gaps with BridgeWave's microwave gear

XO Communications (OTC BB: XOHO.OB ) is expanding its broadband wireless offerings to business customers that can't be reached by deploying BridgeWave's FlexPort80 links over its existing 80 market

Sizing up FierceTelecom's 2010 wireline predictions

While today's issue of FierceTelecom will be dedicated to our 2011 predictions, I think it's a good time to see how we fared in 2010. Following one of the worst economic meltdowns since the Great

McCaw's resignation raises concerns about Clearwire

Craig McCaw's year-end resignation as chairman of Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR ) has raised some concerns about the viability of a company on which cable is betting some, if not all, its broadband mobile

Clearwire to sell $1.1 billion in notes to raise working capital

Always-on-the-financial-brink WiMAX provider Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR ) may have found a way to step back from the monetary ledge--at least temporarily--via a $1.1 billion offering of debt securities

Clearwire launches WiFi service in California, Florida and Ohio

Broadband wireless provider Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR ) officially debuted its WiMAX-based service in five additional markets--Los Angeles, Miami, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio--yesterday and

Up in the sky, it's a LightSquared bird

Wholesale broadband wireless services provider LightSquared has upped the competitive ante--literally--with the launch of a Boeing-built satellite that it will use to provide wholesale mobile

Genachowski makes spectrum push; FCC freezes LPTV applications

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski amping the volume on his broadband wireless pitch. Writing in The Washington Post, Genachowski compares wireless spectrum to "visible infrastructure projects, such as

Samsung helps WiMAX 2 streak to 330 Mbps in Japan

If nothing else, longtime WiMAX proponent Samsung is keeping things interesting in the broadband wireless space. The Korean electronics giant joined UQ Communications in a trial of 802.16m

LightSquared broadband mobile proposal now on FCC clock

In addition to raising billions of dollars, successfully promoting a business plan that competes with the likes of entrenched gians AT&T (NYSE: T ), Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR ) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ )