NY Station Completes Repack Early With T-Mobile Assistance
WLNY-TV's early move clears a path for T-Mobile to enhance LTE service in New York City
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How Could the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Affect the TV Repack?
Plan could mean more spectrum cooperation, but more challenges for tower companies
Wireless Comms Providers Cope with Frequency Changes
Wireless microphone, in-ear and communications equipment users are already on notice that they may have to vacate the 600 MHz band sooner than the FCC’s post-incentive auction TV station repack schedule would suggest.
NAB Urges FCC to Protect In-Band Channels to Ease Next-Gen Transition
The association also asked the agency to adopt a “reasonable waiver standard” of simulcasting rule
T-Mobile Closes Layer3 TV Acquisition
T-Mobile has completed its acquisition of Denver-based Layer3 TV, an important part of the company’s plan to launch a new pay TV service to challenge cable and satellite TV providers, the wireless carrier announced today.
T-Mobile to Launch Mobile TV Service in 2018
T-Mobile will launch a new TV service next year and to help make it a reality the wireless carrier has signed a definitive agreement to buy TV technology firm Layer3 TV for an undisclosed sum, the company announced today.
T-Mobile, Fox TV Stations Partner On Repack
T-Mobile and Fox Television Stations have agreed they will work together to accelerate the repack of Fox-owned stations.
AWARN Alliance Blasts T-Mobile White Paper Assertion
A T-Mobile white paper characterizing ATSC 3.0 and its advanced emergency warning capabilities as “inferior” drew fire Sept. 14 from the Advanced Warning and Response Network (AWARN) Alliance.
T-Mobile Activates First 600 MHz LTE Network
T-Mobile has wasted little time in getting its first 600 MHz LTE network up and running, announcing that it has lit up its first site in Cheyenne, Wyo.
T-Mobile to Foot Repack Cost for Displaced Public LPTVs
T-Mobile has committed to covering the costs for local public television low-power facilities required to relocate to new channels in the post-incentive auction repack, according to PBS and Americas Public TV Stations.
T-Mobile Takes the Most TV Spectrum for $8 Billion
T-Mobile was the big winner in the recently concluded TV spectrum incentive auction, followed by Dish and Comcast, according to Marci Ryvicker, senior analyst at Wells Fargo.
T-Mobile Paints Rosy Repack
T-Mobile says the government’s TV channel-repacking methodology will beat expectations.
T-Mobile Tees Up LTE-U for Spring Deployment
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.
T-Mobile Donates $60,000 to Tower Family Foundation
After helping to sponsor the third annual Tower Family Foundation Golf Tournament on Aug. 17, T-Mobile offered additional support to the non-profit organization with a donation of $60,000.
ERI Boosts Antenna Production for End of Incentive Auction
In anticipation of the conclusion of the FCC’s Broadcast Incentive Auction and expected mandated television channel changes, Electronic Research, Inc. announced at the 2016 NAB Show an agreement with T-Mobile that will see the acceleration of antenna production by what ERI describes as 800 percent.