The Mexican government has finally announced the bidding rules to kick off the upcoming wireless spectrum (radio bandwidth) auction in the country. The Mexican telecom regulator Cofetel released details of radio-electric spectrum to be offered to the qualified bidders through two separate auctions. However, no specific date of the auction has been announced.  In the first auction, Cofetel will offer nine blocks of frequencies ranging from 1850 to 1990 megahertz (MHz) across eight of Mexico’s nine wireless operating regions including the capital Mexico City. The regulator will also offer seven blocks of spectrums between 1710 MHz and 2170 MHz band in the second auction which will cover all nine operating regions.  Technical specification of the two acutions will be released between Jan 6 and Jan 8, 2010. Interested bidders need to get approval from the Mexican antitrust watchdog Federal Competition Commission (CFC). Eventual winners at the second ...

Grupo Televisa S.A. (TV) has decided to explore the wireless communications market. Televisa is the largest media company in Mexico as well as in the Spanish-speaking world. Its cable TV subsidiary Cablevision will start providing mobile phone services in Mexico from the first quarter of 2010. Televisa has already started its own telecom business. On May 9, 2007, the Mexican Ministry of Communication and Transportation granted Cablevision permission to offer fixed telephony services through its network. As of now, Cablevision offers digital cable television services, broadband Internet connection, high-definition television services and video-on-demand products.   Televisa is a dominant force in the Mexican media business. The company is almost a monopoly with around 70% of the Mexican open television market. Televisa has a stable customer base in many different areas, including television broadcasting, pay television network, publishing, and radio. Cablevision will try to leverage this long-established customer base ...

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North Dallas Bank & Trust Co. (OTCBB: NODB) announces net earnings of $1,344,021 or $0.52 per share for the three months ending September 30, 2009, compared to $1,348,016 or $0.52 per share for the same period in 2008. Year to date net earnings through the nine months ending September 30, 2009 totaled $3,357,751 or $1.31 per share compared to $3,968,757 or $1.54 per share for the same period in 2008.

Trico Marine Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRMA) announced that its wholly

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TiVo (TIVO) shares on Monday, June 29, 2009, lost 4.08% and fell $0.45 to close at $10.58. The slide in the price followed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to permit Cablevision (CVC) and other cable operators to offer network DVR (Digital Video Recorder) service.

The new service will allow subscribers to record programs on centralized servers, instead of requiring separate set-top boxes with in-built hard drives. The standard TiVo DVR records and stores TV shows on a hard drive in the set-top box, allowing consumers to playback programming and skip past ads. The new remote-storage DVR system converts every digital set-top box into a DVR, and allows users to record shows.

A number of film studios and television networks including Time Warner (TWX), News Corporation (NWSA), CBS Corporation (CBS) and Walt Disney (DIS) squabbled that Cablevision's new remote-storage DVR violated federal copyright

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If you have money in a cable company or phone company with big cable operations, you may want to consider getting out now. By all measures, the new man of the people may have his sites set on the biggest rip-off in today’s consumer market.

Since 1996, cable prices have surged 77% - double the rate of inflation. And it’s hard to believe that the Obama administration is going to let further price gouging go unpunished.

The FCC is already conducting a probe into shady price hikes around the impending mandatory switch to digital signals on Feb 17th. The investigation is sparked by complaints of higher prices and fewer channels.

The FCC sent letters to Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bend Cable Communications, Brighthouse Networks, Cablevision, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, GCI, Harron Entertainment, RCN and Suddenlink Communications.

In a way, the timing couldn’t be worse for the cable industry….

There’s a groundswell of opposition to cable

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Harbinger CapitalHarbinger Capital | 13F Hedge Fund HoldingsThis post is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger.com’s Investment Securities Tool which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Harbinger Capital is a $13.8 Billion firm ran by Philip Falcone. Taken from StreetInsider, Harbinger is “a disciplined, value investor with an emphasis on intensive credit research. Its focus is on middle market companies that tend to be misunderstood or under-researched by the market. Investment approaches include:Restructuring/Bankruptcy, Turnaround, Liquidation, Event Driven, Capital Structure Arbitrage, Short Sale and Special Situations.” At one point during this year, they were up as much as 42% (more on that below).So, now that we’ve got a background on Harbinger Capital, let’s …

Harbinger Special Situation Fund, run by Philip Falcone, made the following significant buys and sells during the second quarter…

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New Positions:

Yahoo

Sprint Nextel

Southern Union

RTI Metals

Peabody Energy

Nisource

Nicor

Media General

Cablevision

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Williams Sonoma

Owens Corning

Cleveland Cliffs

Ashland

Corn Products

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Wachovia Bank (PUTS)

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