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AT&T to purchase FLO TV spectrum from Qualcomm

By: |Dec 20th, 2010 at 09:42AM
Filed Under: General
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The holidays are a time for giving, but AT&T decided it would scoop up a little stocking stuffer for itself this holiday season — a $2 billion stocking stuffer. The nation’s No. 2 carrier announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with Qualcomm to purchase blocks of 700MHz spectrum for $1.925 billion. The blocks in question were previously used for Qualcomm’s FLO TV service, and an estimated 300 million people were covered by the service. AT&T plans to ultimately use this newly ac...

Qualcomm reportedly preparing portable FLO TV device

By: |Aug 26th, 2009 at 02:44PM
Filed Under: Rumor, Services, TV
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File this one under “huh?” According to a report from gdgt this morning, Qualcomm is readying a portable tablet-like dedicated FLO TV device that will provide users with TV on the go. Dubbed a Portable Television, or PTV, Qualcomm’s upcoming device is said to resemble the sketch above and is thought to be about the size of an iPhone. Reported specs include a capacitive touchscreen, 4GB of memory, stereo speakers and battery life to the tune of 300 hours of standby, 5 hours of TV and 15 hour...