Cable operators with $2.37 billion in winning spectrum bids won’t...
Cable operators with $2.37 billion in winning spectrum bids won’t start a wireless provider with nationwide reach, SpectrumCo said -- but will consider testing various services. Those may include mobile video and broadband, analysts have said. “Members of SpectrumCo…
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will fully evaluate all options including possible testing in limited markets… No plans have as yet been finalized,” SpectrumCo said in a release. SpectrumCo, whose cable members are Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox and Advance/Newhouse, said the spectrum may be used as part of their wireless joint venture with Sprint Nextel, set to start trials this year in 7 markets. Down payments from winning bidders in FCC auction 66 were due Wed.