MuniWireless

Ever since we put together our first Sidecut Report on WiMax and its comprehensive look at the impact of the New Clearwire deal on the U.S. market, we have been intrigued by the prospect of the 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings that Sprint and the old Clearwire brought to the table.

So instead of just wondering about it, we spent some time asking questions and came up with a new product, something we are calling a Sidecut QuickCut — in this case…

What are the enlightened US Congress representatives doing when they’re not worrying about the sinking dollar, the collapse of the financial markets, a recession, the war in Iraq and global warming?

What else: auctioning off even more spectrum (as if we need yet another spectrum monopoly) so that some poor idiot can provide free Wi-Fi to consumers and public safety users, and of course, protecting those young impressionable minds from “obscene content”. Just to show you that silliness knows no party boundaries,…

A new coalition of consumer and media policy groups is urging the FCC to foster open competition and consumer choice in upcoming spectrum auctions. Try to attend the press conference on Thursday, 5 April 2007. With the Federal Communications Commission about to conduct a multibillion-dollar spectrum auction, a coalition of consumer and media policy groups is seeking rules to maximize competition for wireless broadband.

At a press conference Thursday and in new filings with the FCC, the groups — which include…

Craig McCaw, who in 1994 sold his McCaw Cellular phone service to AT&T for more than $13 billion, now is buying spectrum from them‚Äö?Ñ?Æin the mobile WiMAX space.Clearwire is upping its ante in the mobile WiMAX space. This week the company agreed to purchase all of the former BellSouth’s leased and licensed 2.5 GHz spectrum from AT&T for a reported $300 million in cash.

The move comes as no surprise. During the FCC’s review of the AT&T/BellSouth merger last fall, Clearwire…