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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the last several years we've had auction-after-auction, all ostensibly designed to provide competition to the Wireless Trust. Has it? No, it hasn't. The Trust remains intact. The benefits of ...

A U.S. Federal Communications auction of repurposed television spectrum has raised US$19.8 billion and will pave the way for mobile carriers to offer faster and more reliable service across the ...

The first stage of the FCC reverse auction of television spectrum concluded as many analysts had predicted: Sellers’ opening bid prices were more than $60 billion higher than what the forward auction ...