FCC Announces Accepted Applications for 700 MHz Band Auction
FCC 700 MHz Band Auction
Auction ID: 73
Accepted Applications
(Sorted by Applicant)
Date of Report: 12/18/2007 01:13 PM ET
The following applicants have an Initial filing phase status of "Accepted."
| FRN | Name | Bidding Credit Revenue Range |
| 0002805596 | Adams Telcom, Inc. | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0014061097 | Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0000021188 | AlasConnect, Inc. | |
| 0016161788 | Aristotle Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0016927360 | AWS Spectrum, LLC | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0017118837 | Bayou Internet, Inc. | |
| 0002477636 | BEK Communications Cooperative | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0003764727 | Bend Cable Communications, LLC | |
| 0003766201 | Blanca Telephone Company | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0017147406 | Blue Sky Cell, LLC | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0010698868 | Bluegrass Wireless LLC | |
| 0017194473 | Bresnan Communications, Inc. | |
| 0017181199 | Broadband Wireless Unlimited, LLC | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0008394215 | Budget Phone | |
| 0015024631 | Cavalier Wireless, LLC | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0001649508 | Central Texas Telephone Investments, LP | |
| 0002532497 | Chariton Valley Communication Corporation, Inc. | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0003707775 | Chester Telephone Company | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0017191172 | Clearcom, Inc. | |
| 0017146051 | COLI Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0001711837 | Command Connect, LLC | |
| 0017171950 | Cricket Licensee 2007, LLC | |
| 0001700616 | Cross Telephone Company, LLC | |
| 0003777919 | CTC Telcom, Inc. | |
| 0017166422 | Data-Max Wireless LLC | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0017118084 | Delmarva Broadband LLC | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0001858760 | Ellijay Telephone Company | |
| 0001754738 | Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0004338489 | Farmers Telephone Company, Inc. | |
| 0014955017 | Fidelity Communications Company | |
| 0002480085 | Forum Communications Company | |
| 0004600268 | FTC Management Group, Inc. | |
| 0002388262 | Glenwood Telephone Membership, Corporation | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0002333839 | Golden Belt Telephone Association, Inc. | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0017171182 | Google Airwaves Inc. | |
| 0017184268 | Grain Spectrum LLC | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0017176173 | Great American Broadband, Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0016191827 | GreenFly LLC | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0002331601 | H & B Communications, Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0001886944 | Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | |
| 0009639923 | Inland Cellular Telephone Company | |
| 0001523125 | IT&E Overseas, Inc. | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0017169087 | KeyOn Spectrum Holdings, LLC | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0017164583 | Kinex Networking Solutions, Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0002212314 | Kingdom Telephone Company | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0003548443 | Kurian, Thomas K | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0004334702 | Lackawaxen Long Distance Company, Inc. | |
| 0017166240 | Landover PCS Holdings, LLC | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0002576791 | MAC Wireless, LLC | |
| 0015031065 | Manti Telephone Company | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0004344776 | Medicine Park Telephone Company, Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0014993794 | Midwest AWS Limited Partnership | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0017195561 | Miller, David | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0011146479 | Mt. Vernnon.Net Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0014999585 | MTN3B Consortium | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0002886984 | Mulberry Cooperative Telephone Company, Inc | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0008209629 | N.E. Colorado Wireless Technologies, Inc. | |
| 0012841458 | Neptuno Media | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0004337044 | Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Company | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0002388882 | Northeast Nebraska Telephone Company | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0014990436 | Northern Iowa Communications Partners, LLC | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0001704246 | Panhandle Telecommunication Systems, Inc. | |
| 0002644953 | Paul Bunyan Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | |
| 0017036799 | PBP Bidco LLC | |
| 0005746508 | PCS Partners, L.P. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0001887140 | Piedmont Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0003740040 | Polar Communications Mutual Aid Corporation | |
| 0007024607 | Public Service Wireless Services, Inc. | |
| 0003742384 | Red River Rural Telephone Association, Inc. | |
| 0001886464 | Sandhill Communications, LLC | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0001551241 | Siskiyou Telephone Company | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0017182528 | Small Ventures USA, L.P. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0017183237 | Spectrum Acquisitions, Inc. | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0001960962 | Star Telephone Membership Corporation | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0002901817 | Swayzee Telephone Co. Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0003744406 | TCT West, Inc. | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0017057787 | Terra World Communications, LLC | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0005097381 | The Chillicothe Telephone Company | |
| 0005069323 | The Tri-County Telephone Association, Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0002337509 | The World Company | |
| 0015467749 | Towerstream Corporation | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0010907244 | Tri-Valley Communications, LLC | |
| 0017182742 | Triad 700, LLC | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0016655912 | USA Choice Internet Services Company LLC | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0001685718 | Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0014045504 | Van Buren Wireless, Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0017176207 | Vavasi NexGen Inc. | |
| 0005209374 | Vermont Telephone Company, Inc. | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0007028723 | Vulcan Spectrum LLC | |
| 0003936994 | Washington County Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0002722049 | West Wisconsin Telcom Cooperative, Inc. | 15,000,000 - 40,000,000 |
| 0017195678 | Wi2 | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0002624856 | Wireless Communications Venture | |
| 0017164179 | Worldcall Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0003801362 | WUE, Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
| 0016099210 | Xpressweb Internet Services, Inc. | 0 - 15,000,000 |
Of course, Google Airwaves, Inc. is the one bidder that is attracting all the attention. A number of other companies are interested as well.
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Don't Let Your Clients Sit in Traffic
Google Maps now offers real-time traffic conditions via a Traffic text button. This button may be found in the upper right-hand corner of the map where the other buttons are located for alternating between the Map, Satellite and Hybrid views.
Here's the secret algorithm for decoding the colors:
- Green: more than 50 miles per hour
- Yellow: 25 - 50 miles per hour
- Red: less than 25 miles per hour
- Gray: no data currently available
Previously, I looked up traffic conditions at 511.org. While 511.org does provide more detailed accident information, I found the site to be slow. Do I really need to see an animated "retrieving data" image to remind me how poky the site was? Also, after Google introduced draggable maps, the click to re-center the map interface just seemed downright primitive. And, sites that adhered to that interface were telling me that they had stopped innovating.
Glad to see Google add another welcome feature to an already solid product. If you want your clients to be able to check out traffic conditions before they head out the door to your office, consider adding a link to your law firm from Google Maps. It just might save them some time.
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Face Off: Drunk Driving v. DUI
This one surprised me a bit. I thought drunk driving would be the most popular search term, but DUI beats out both DWI and drunk driving. I didn't realize how ingrained these acronyms were within our vocabulary.
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What Type of Lawyer Are You?
How do you describe your practice areas on your law firm website or blog? One way would be to carryover the phrases your firm had successfully used in a magazine or yellow pages ad. When I flipped through the Valley Yellow Pages today, I noticed that the personal injury attorney ads exclusively used the term auto. In print, auto accident, car accident or vehicle accident may all be used interchangeably. Someone seeking a lawyer that handles car accidents will recognize that a law firm that handles auto accidents will work just fine.
However, the online world is different. Someone searching for a lawyer that handles car accidents won't necessarily find your law firm website or blog if you only mention that you handle auto accidents.
Just take a look at the search volume for various search terms using Google Trends. Car accident far outpaces auto accident or vehicle accident, and understandably so. In our daily conversation, we simply do not use the term auto. For one week, try replacing the word "car" with the word "auto" and see what happens.
"Whose auto are we going to take?"
"Can I drive your auto to school today?"
So, while automobiles or motor vehicles may be broader and more encompassing terms, cars is how we like to call them.
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Google buys the Garage where it all began... and other Silicon Valley Garages of Note
Hi Friends,
Google has bought the Menlo Park garage that Larry and Sergey started their company in.
Google Garage - Menlo Park, California
Here are some other nearby garages....
Apple Garage - Los Altos, California
HP Garage - Palo Alto, California...
... where a lot of this started.
Peace - Tim
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Google Services for Business - Email, Website, Calendar
Hi Friends,
Another day, more free Google stuff. Google today formally released their free hosted domain services for business (you can read the press release and the Wall Street Journal Article). It includes email and Website tools for your domain, as well as a calendar and chat services. We were in the beta last May for testing Google's GMail for our Justice.PRO domain and it has worked well. We got a 100 2GB justice.pro email accounts for the great price of .... FREE :).
The new free service Google has just added is a Web site development tool for your domain. This is similar to their Google Pages application, but now you can use your own domain for your site. We made a business site for Little Sheba and Rio Bravo. Links to t-shirts and mugs will be included later this week :)
You can visit Sheba's and Rio's site by visiting Peace.Justice.PRO
Stacy and I did a presentation at the National Bar Association a few weeks ago on free marketing services, and will start posting that information in the next few days, contrasting in particular Microsoft's Office Live offerings with those from Google.
Peace - Tim
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Google Trends Offers Traffic Charts for Legal Keywords
Today, at its second annual Press Day, Google unveiled Google Trends, the latest project to percolate from Google Labs. While I am always interested in the new products coming out of Google, this latest one has me really excited. And, once I show you how Google Trends can impact your law practice, I hope you will share my excitement as well.
First, let's take a look at the Google Trends home page. Right below the Google logo is the familiar search box. To view the charts for different search terms, enter each of the terms separated by a comma in the search box and click on the Search Trends button.
First, let's say you are a personal injury lawyer who handles asbestos cases. Two keywords that you would probably be interested in is asbestosis and mesothelioma. So, you type these two terms into Google Trends and retrieve the Asbestosis versus Mesothelioma traffic chart.
The legend indicates that the blue line maps the asbestosis traffic and the red line maps the mesothelioma traffic. The top graph charts search volume, while the bottom graph charts news volume. In addition, Google has plotted how news stories have impacted the search volume.
Google Trends also identifies the location where most of the searches for these two terms are originating—Charleston. If you want to refine your search (instead of all years and all regions), you can limit the results to come from a specific month or year and a specific country.
Let's run a different search. Here's the Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra traffic chart. As you can see, the search volume for the three NSAIDs look approximately the same. However, each of the NSAIDs have an event-driven pop in traffic, with the one for Vioxx being the largest. This occurred when Merck withdrew Vioxx from the market.
To get a more detailed view, I limited the trend history to 2006. In this graph, you can see that there were more searches for Celebrex (red), than Vioxx (blue) or Bextra (Orange), even though the news volume for Vioxx was the greatest.
Let's look at one more graph. For those that practice family law, how should you describe your practice on your web site? Are you a divorce lawyer? A divorce attorney? A family law attorney? A family law lawyer?
The trend history shows that divorce attorney (red) edges divorce lawyer (blue) by a slight margin. And both of them are searched more frequently than either family law attorney (orange) and family law lawyer (green).
If we look at the statistics on a regional basis, we can variances in search volume by location. So, the chart first shows us that there are a lot of people in Minneapolis looking for a divorce, and these Minnesotans are searching for a divorce attorney more frequently than a divorce lawyer. However, if you look at New Yorkers, they are searching for a divorce lawyer more frequently than a divorce attorney. So, depending on the location of your family law practice, you may want to optimize your web site for divorce lawyer instead of divorce attorney.
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New Mini Google Mini - indexes 50k documents for $1,995
Hi Friends,
Google came has come out with a mini version of their Google Mini. The new version indexes 50,000 documents and costs $1,995. It is very easy to setup, and if you need to upgrade the number of documents you are indexing , you can just purchase an upgrade license and enter in a new license key (like Justia did recently :). Google has a Google Mini product tour online and list of the 200+ file formats the Google Mini indexes.
For law firms, I would recommend using a Google Mini for the full text search of their Web site if it has 1,000 or more pages of content and for their intranet to search previous legal research (to find old briefs etc...). The key value to us was the ease of setup and quality of search results.
You can read more about our use of the Google Mini in our previous posts: about the Google Mini and our use of it for the US Supreme Court Decisions full text search.
Peace - Tim
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GooglePages - Free Web Sites from Google
Hi Friends,
Google came out with their free Web sites (Google Pages) last week. I was playing around with it (see Sheba's GooglePages Web Site) and it seems pretty nice. The Page Creator is page by page focused, and your subdomain (tstanley.GooglePages.com) will be based on your Google Gmail address (tstanley at gmail.com) leading to possible spam.
Natalie Jost has a nice run through and tutorial on using Google Pages on her own Google Pages Web site NatalieJost.GooglePages.com. Anyway check out Natalie's GooglePages site, it is excellent.
More free stuff from Google... always good.
Peace - Tim
And of course law firms can make free law firm focused Web sites at freedom.justia.com (for an example see Antony Cermanaro's business law site).
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Beverly Hills Small Claims Court forces Google to remove documents from their Web database, including a Public Domain Government Document on a Government Website (namely a US Bankruptcy Court Order)
Lately, Google has been involved in a lot of lawsuits: book publishers, DOJ subpoena, Microsoft, France....
However, last month, in a novel twist, a plaintiff, Mark Anderson, convinced the Beverly Hills Small Claims Court to direct Google to remove a number of documents that mention him from the Google index, including newspaper articles and public documents such as a U.S. Bankruptcy Court order.
Specifically, the Court ordered Google to remove "all references to [1 individual and 3 companies] from the Google search engines and search results." This is not the removal of the documents from the Internet, just from the Google search results. Attached to the order was an exhibit listing the Web pages to be removed from the Google index. Chilling Effects has posted the court order and exhibit on its Web site.
Here are some of the sites that had their pages removed from the Google SERPs, per the California small claims court order.
Global Water Technologies > News. A quick look at Google's cache shows that this page is not in their index. On a practical level, the removal may not represent that significant a development since the latest news release posted on this page is from November 10, 2004. However, as a theoretical matter, if a plaintiff can convince a court to order Google to remove a third party company's press release page from its index, the potential for harm is significant, in terms of investor relations and marketing. This also raises the question whether any of the third party Web sites were notified that their pages would be removed from the Google index. If not, a company's Web site could be de-indexed and they may not even know about it.
DefaultRisk.com > 2nd Qtr 2003. DefaultRisk.com bills itself as a resource for managers of credit risk measurement and modeling. The offending portion on this page is an 85 word summary of a bankruptcy filing. The summary was factual in nature and did not include editorial comments on the parties or the merits of the bankruptcy filing. Again, a cache of this page is missing from the Google index.
Denver Business Journal > Global Water Technologies files Chapter 11. This one is even more amazing! An article from a reputable business newspaper vanishes from Google's index. If you read the article, it too is factual in nature.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court - District of Colorado > In re: Global Water Technologies, Inc. If removing a business newspaper's Web page from the Google index amazed me, then removing a United States Bankruptcy Court order from the Google SERPs absolutely shocked me. The usual reasons for removing a page from the Google index probably involve trademark or copyright issues. But, here, none of these issues should exist with a court order. We've all heard of opinions being depublished, but de-indexed? Think about that. A state small claims court de-indexes a federal bankruptcy court's order. We wonder whether the plaintiff will sue the US Federal Courts to compel them to remove the document from their site as well.
EDGAR Online > Secured Term Promissory Note. This promissory note was an exhibit to a Form 8-K filing. In other words, an ordinary business contract. But, the note involved a "Company Who Must Not Be Named," so it too was removed from Google's SERPs.
So, having verified that these Web pages are not in the Google index, let's take a look at the other two search engines. I ran a search query on Yahoo! using the first set of terms listed in the exhibit to the court order. Surprisingly, on the first page, three of the above Web pages were listed, including those from Global Water Technologies, DefaultRisk.com, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court - District of Colorado. So, it appears that Yahoo! escaped unscathed for now.
Next, I ran the same search on MSN. Interestingly, the first result was the court order and exhibit on Chilling Effects. However, none of the five results mentioned in the Google analysis above appeared on the first page. I did spot the Web page from DefaultRisk.com on page 3 of MSN's results. To test whether MSN had removed certain pages from its listings or whether MSN was just using a different algorithm, I ran some additional search queries.
When I search for "He Who Must Not Be Named" on the Global Water Technologies domain, MSN tells me, "We couldn't find any results." The same search for news on that domain yields GWT - In the News, which is one of the pages stricken from the Google index. This shows that the Web page was not removed from the MSN index. However, why wasn't this Web page returned as a match for my earlier search? Looking at the cache reveals that the individual's name does appear on that page. And, if I run a search for George Kast, another name that appears on that news page, MSN does return that page as a matching result. So, it appears that while MSN has not removed that Web page from its index, all the words on that page are not fully indexed either.
Since my earlier MSN searches were inconclusive, I ran another test. This time, I searched for one of the company names on the U.S. Bankruptcy Court - District of Colorado's Web site. The court order appeared as the lone match. So, that didn't clear things up a bit. If MSN is removing results from its SERPs, I hope that it would adopt Google's practice of notifying users that certain results have been removed pursuant to a legal request and adding a hyperlink to the request on Chilling Effects. That way, MSN users will know whether to try another search engine to see if more complete results are available.
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Feds Subpoena Google
The San Jose Mercury News reported that the Feds have subpoenaed Google in a bid to obtain their search records. In an act reminiscent of certain countries in "Old Europe," Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL all surrendered, leaving Google to fight it alone.
Here are copies of the motions. I've OCR'd them so that they are searchable and copy-and-pasteable.
- Notice of Motion, and Motion to Compel Compliance with Subpoena Duces Tecum
- Declaration of Joel McElvain
- Notice of FIling of Declaration of Philip B. Stark, Ph.D.
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Google Offers SEO Tips for Librarians...and Lawyers and Law Firms.
Google recently published the inaugural issue of Google's Newsletter for Librarians. While the newsletter was conceived at the 2005 ALA (American Library Association) conference and is targeted at librarians, the information contained within the newsletter is equally applicable to lawyers or law firms with web sites.
In the newsletter, Google engineer Matt Cutts offers a primer on how Google crawls and indexes the web and then ranks the search results.
| Google's Newsletter for Librarians | Action Items |
| The [Googlebot] doesn't really roam the web; it instead asks a web server to return a specified web page, then scans that web page for hyperlinks, which provide new documents that are fetched the same way. | Because unlinked files are invisible to Google, make sure all the pages on your web site that you want to be visible on the Google search engine results pages are linked. A site map is one way to help the Googlebot discover all the pages on your web site. |
| [T]o build an index ... we "invert" the crawl data; instead of having to scan for each word in every document, we juggle our data in order to list every document that contains a certain word. | Keywords matter. If you want Google to index your web page for a particular word, then that word better appear on your web page. |
| How do we find pages that contain the user's query? | Remember, Google returns results based on the user's query. So, focus on the user. Ask your friends and family members who are not lawyers to tell you what search terms they would use to locate a lawyer in your practice area. |
| PageRank evaluates two things: how many links there are to a web page from other pages, and the quality of the linking sites. | Why would someone link to your site? Do you offer some form of unique and interesting content that readers would like to share with others? If no, consider a lawyer blog. Blogs are great way to share your insights, demonstrate your expertise and develop links from other sites. |
| [I]f a document contains the words "civil" and "war" right next to each other, it might be more relevant than a document discussing the Revolutionary War that happens to use the word "civil" somewhere else on the page. | This example was discussed within the context of a search for civil war. The lesson here is that the proximity between keywords matter. So, if someone searches for an estate planning lawyer, you would be better off having estate planning lawyer appear on your web site instead of a lawyer who prepares wills and engages in the planning of estates even though both phrases contains estate, planning and lawyer within them. |
| Also, if a page includes the words "civil war" in its title, that's a hint that it might be more relevant than a document with the title "19th Century American Clothing." | Title tags matter. Review the title tags for all the pages on your web site to see if they contain the keywords that a potential client will use to locate your web site. See below if you don't know what a title tag is or where to find it on a web page. |
| As a rule, Google tries to find pages that are both reputable and relevant. If two pages appear to have roughly the same amount of information matching a given query, we'll usually try to pick the page that more trusted websites have chosen to link to. Still, we'll often elevate a page with fewer links or lower PageRank if other signals suggest that the page is more relevant. For example, a web page dedicated entirely to the civil war is often more useful than an article that mentions the civil war in passing, even if the article is part of a reputable site such as Time.com. | How does Google know whether "civil war" is discussed in depth or just mentioned in passing without having to actually understand the content of the page? Proxies for determining this include title tags (again), keyword frequency and keyword density. Review your web site to see whether the keywords on your web pages are diluted or co |