AT&T, Verizon, Google May Be Winners in U.S. Broadband Plan2010-03-15 10:33 by DanielaTags: FCC, AT&T, Verizon, Google
Mobile-phone companies led by AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless may be the biggest winners from a U.S. plan for more high-speed Internet service. The two largest wireless companies, as well as No. 3 and No. 4 providers Sprint Nextel Corp. and Deutsche-Telekom AG's T- Mobile unit, would benefit from proposals to make more airwaves available, analysts said. Builders of communications towers, those laying lines to the new towers, and Internet companies reaping more traffic also may profit. The Federal Communications Commission's plan to expand high-speed Internet service, or broadband, is due to Congress by March 17. The agency will publicly preview its proposals in Washington tomorrow. More airways for mobile use of the Web will be "a core goal," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a Feb. 24 speech. "More spectrum from the FCC can only be good" for wireless carriers, said Paul Gallant, a Washington-based analyst with Concept Capital's Washington Research Group, in an interview. "It's hard to tell which mobile phone companies will benefit most, since it's hard to predict the outcome of auctions that will be used to allocate newly available airwaves." Read more -here-
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