Sentence examples for licensing of airwaves from inspiring English sources

The Internet threatens radio broadcasters by destroying the barriers to entry created by the government's licensing of airwaves.

The Federal Communications Commission said today that it would delay for seven months one of two June 19 auctions of licenses for airwaves to be abandoned by television broadcasters.

Most of the funds are coming from Verizon Wireless, which in October bought another NextWave license to airwaves in the New York metropolitan area for $930 million.

The government is selling 422 licenses for airwaves that can be used to offer voice and data services.

Taking advantage of rules intended to help the smallest telecommunications companies and bolster competition, the nation's largest wireless phone services and their partners are on the verge of winning scores of new licenses in a $17 billion auction of airwaves.

Verizon and AT&T won more than $16 billion worth of licenses, airwaves they plan to use to for voice, data services and new wireless technologies.

The test, he said, "would get us back to the original licensing bargain between broadcasters and the people: in return for free use of airwaves that belong exclusively to the people, licensees agree to serve the public interest as good stewards of a precious national resource".

The auction depends on the F.C.C. convincing television broadcasters to either sell their licenses to use spectrum in exchange for some of the auction proceeds or to willingly move to another spot on the dial, so that the F.C.C. can package and sell contiguous bands of airwaves.

P13 BT spurned in £5bn battle of airwaves.

At Sakurajima, maximum amplitudes are measured in the seismograms before the arrival of airwaves.

Cellular data networks offer vastly greater coverage areas, but installing cellular towers and licensing cellular airwaves cost far more per customer.