Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi and others from the company met with FCC staff about use of the spectrum sharing technologies Federated is developing for the 3.5 GHz band in high-frequency bands. “Federated Wireless also reiterated its support for the Commission’s efforts to make spectrum available for premises occupants and other indoor users through innovative sharing regimes and encouraged the Commission to continue seeking such solutions in the millimeter wave and other bands, including at 37 GHz,” Federated said in a filing in docket 14-177. “Federated Wireless urged the Commission to foster the development of a robust shared spectrum ecosystem, including through the establishment of near-term ‘use or share’ obligations for licensees.” The Federated executives met with officials from the Wireless Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology.

The 800 MHz rebanding is substantially complete nationwide, except for areas along the borders with Mexico and Canada, Sprint said in a report filed in docket 02-55 at the FCC. The rebanding has been underway since 2004. Only 13 of the 55 National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee (NPSPAC) regions are incomplete, Sprint said. “Excluding the five Regions located within in the U.S.-Mexican Border Area and the State of Washington (Region 43) located in the U.S.-Canada Border Area, only two individual licensees (one public safety and one non-public safety) remain to complete 800 MHz band reconfiguration in the seven non-border NPSPAC areas of the United States,” Sprint said. "These accomplishments demonstrate that, by any measure, the multi-year, multi-billion dollar 800 MHz band reconfiguration project is reaching its final stages."

T-Mobile’s latest “Uncarrier” initiative, unveiled Monday, offers a share of T-Mobile common stock to new subscribers who open a postpaid consumer smartphone account, T-Mobile said in a news release. T-Mobile also is offering current subscribers stock for convincing someone else to open an account. “Get ready for a gratitude adjustment, America!” said CEO John Legere. A share of T-Mobile stock was worth $43.07 at the close of trading on Monday.

DVIGear will demonstrate its DisplayNet 10-gigabit Ethernet technology at InfoComm this week, said the company. DisplayNet switches, extends and distributes uncompressed AV signals in real time at resolutions up to 4K Ultra HD with zero frame latency, compression or artifacts, DVIGear said. Applications include “limitless” matrix switching and video wall displays, it said. DVI Gear also is showing active optical cables that can extend DisplayPort v1.2 4K signals up to 328 feet and a fiber optic extender that supports HDMI 1.4 (or DVI) with or without HDCP, RS-232, bidirectional IR, 10/100 Ethernet and balanced or unbalanced audio over a single optical cable, said the company.

Initial comments on the FCC’s 5.9 GHz record refresh public notice are expected to be due July 7 at the FCC, based on a notice slated to be published Tuesday in the Federal Register. The FCC released the notice last week (see 1606010067). Comments in docket 13-49 are due 30 days after publication, replies 15 days later. Disagreements remain about how the band can be shared between Wi-Fi and dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) systems designed to prevent motor vehicle accidents (see 1605260059).

The integration, storage, analysis and presentation of IoT data is expected to become a $30 billion market in 2021, based on a 29.4 percent compound annual growth rate, ABI Research said in a Monday report. “Descriptive analytics currently generate more than 75 percent of IoT analytics revenue,” the firm said. “But over the next five years, rapid uptake of advanced analytics will overtake descriptive analytics’ share of revenue to the extent that predictive and prescriptive analytics will account for more than 60 percent of IoT analytics revenue by 2021.” There will come the need to “harmonize IoT ecosystem components without creating or simply shifting the bottlenecks that come with the management of high-velocity variable data,” it said. That will put pressure “on connectivity providers, edge analytics platform players, and system integrators to stand up new and distributed frameworks,” it said.

The FCC Wireless Bureau sent Sprint a letter Monday asking questions about its proposed exchange of PCS and AWS-1 licenses with Verizon. “The Applicants assert that the proposed spectrum exchanges would allow for holding larger blocks of contiguous spectrum, which in turn should permit more robust operations,” the FCC Wireless Bureau said in a May notice. “In those markets where either Sprint or Verizon Wireless gains additional spectrum, the Applicants maintain that the proposed transaction would help meet the demands of their customers for broadband wireless services." "Provide a detailed description of how the Company would use the spectrum that it would acquire under the Proposed Transaction on a standalone basis and/or in conjunction with any other of the Company’s spectrum holdings, and how it would improve spectrum capacity and efficiency of operations,” said the letter to Sprint. The bureau asks for a response by June 20.

Corning's chief sees a growing market for connected cars and more smartphone uses for its flexible displays. CEO Wendell Weeks told a Sanford Bernstein conference in New York Thursday that a more commercially viable opportunity for Corning than curved displays is in “conformable” displays. He cited the Samsung Galaxy Edge smartphones with displays that wrap around the corner of the device. That's fashioned from a flexible OLED “being used as a conformable display” behind a piece of Corning Gorilla Glass, he said. “That is going to be, far and away, the majority application for this tech going forward and it actually opens up opportunities for us for more Gorilla Glass.” Any observer of the automotive industry would agree “that industry is in the midst of undergoing multiple disruptions,” Weeks said. Corning has an opportunity “to play a significant part in at least three” of those disruptions -- making cars cleaner, safer and more connected, he said. “The thrust of what people want to do is to take that car and give you that same high quality experience you have with your other connected devices,” Weeks said. “We can facilitate that with surfaces that are very durable that are 3D-shaped and optically advantaged. This will allow these to have superior multi-touch response, much better viewing and enhanced communications.”

Nokia and Sprint planned to have demo'd the power of 5G at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, during the Centennial Copa America soccer tournament Friday, Nokia said. It said Sprint was to demo 4K video streaming and virtual reality at speeds of up to 2.3 Gbps, using 73 GHz spectrum. “This demonstration of 5G capabilities is one of several steps we’re taking to bring 5G capabilities into field trials,” Sprint Chief Technology Officer John Saw said in a Nokia news release. “With our deep 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings, we have significantly more 5G capable spectrum than any other carrier,” Saw said in a blog post Friday. “And we have a long history, starting all the way back in 2006, deploying multiple high spectrum bands for backhaul, including 11 GHz, 18 GHz, 23 GHz, 28 GHz and (starting in 2009) 80 GHz.”

Atlantic Tele-Network (ATN) and SAL Spectrum defended their petition seeking a waiver so SAL can benefit from rural bidding credits in the TV incentive auction. The two fired back at N.E. Colorado Cellular and Union Telephone Co., which jointly told the FCC that the agency should reject the request. N.E. Colorado and Union, “competitors” in the auction, filed the only opposing comment, ATN and SAL said. N.E. Colorado and Union told the FCC that ATN has deep pockets and doesn't need additional support (see 1605270015). “The rural service provider bidding credit seeks to promote rural service, not to address constraints on capital,” ATN and SAL said in a filing. Comments were in docket 14-252.