Where Calls Are Dropping, Towerstream Sees a Business Opportunity

The business Internet service provider aims to build wireless “Hot Zones” in places like San Francisco and New York where cellphone networks are congested. The company hopes to sell access to its networks to overloaded carriers as a way to ease their traffic jams.

Paul Allen Still Suffering From Investor Attention Deficit Disorder

The Federal Communications Commission’s “beachfront” spectrum auction in January will, for the most part, be a multibillion-dollar bidding war among the usual suspects. And one or two unusual ones as well. Among the more than 260 applicants included on the bidder list released last night by the FCC (accepted applications; incomplete applications) are AT&T, Verizon [...]