Deborah D McAdams

The closing criteria of the television spectrum incentive auction have been met at $18.2 billion in bids for 70 MHz of public airwaves.

The FCC today confirmed that the fourth-stage forward auction will commence tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 10 a.m. Eastern.

Broadcasters asked $10 for 84 MHz in the fourth stage of the TV spectrum incentive reverse auction, which concluded as scheduled on Friday, Jan. 13.

The U.S. gained 144 low-power TV licenses in 2016 despite the uncertain future of LPTVs, which are not assured a channel assignment in the post-incentive auction repack.

The FCC reached a $100 million settlement with a Glen Allen, Va., company that failed to build out a wireless service network according to the license conditions.

The FCC proposed its game plan for reimbursing TV stations displaced by the spectrum incentive auction, now in a fourth stage.

Bidding in the Stage 4 forward auction is tentatively scheduled to begin Wednesday, Jan. 18, the Federal Communications Commission said today.

Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 10, the bidding schedule will change to four rounds per day.

New York gathering discusses transition away from SDI

The $80 billion windfall predicted from the TV spectrum incentive auction failed to materialize eight months in.

Broadcasters participating in the TV spectrum incentive auction are seeking $40.3 billion for the 108 MHz now targeted for clearing.

Scientists at MIT are using machine learning to create video from a single still shot.

Broadcasters will set their final collective asking price for 108 MHz of TV spectrum on Thursday, and bidding by wireless providers for that spectrum will start four days later, on Monday, Dec. 5.

Federal officials field tested drone zappers at Denver International Airport last week.

How about ruling on white-space device geolocation already, the broadcast lobby told regulators recently.

The radio frequency folks at Facebook say they’ve achieved a data rate of 20 Gbps over millimeter-wave technology at a distance of more than eight miles.

Belden’s Steve Lampen said told HPA Tech Retreat program organizer Mark Schubin he could talk about 4K over coax cable, and hat Schubin said, “we’re tired of 4K. Talk about something besides 4K.”

Shortly after the FCC approved the first use of unlicensed LTE in the 5 GHz band, T-Mobile announced it would launch LTE-U over its network by this spring.