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Plan could mean more spectrum cooperation, but more challenges for tower companies

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.

The association also asked the agency to adopt a “reasonable waiver standard” of simulcasting rule

Will get access to spectrum covering multiple Texas markets

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 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 and Fox Television Stations have agreed they will work together to accelerate the repack of Fox-owned stations.

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 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 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 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 says the government’s TV channel-repacking methodology will beat expectations.

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.

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.

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.