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“A Charlie Brown Christmas Live On Stage” will be presented at Wilkes Community College’s John A. Walker on Thursday, Dec. 7, with doors opening at 7 p.m. and the show

We usually think of the big three mobile carriers, but did you know there are dozens of independent mobile networks in the US?

AT&T Fiber tops our list -- but with less than half of households wired for it, Spectrum's cable internet may be the most (and only) practical alternative.

The results of the FCCs auction of midband spectrum between 3.45GHz and 3.55GHz are in: AT&T spent $9 billion, Dish spent $7.3 billion, T-Mobile spent $2.9 billion. And Verizon spent nothing.

Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile walked away with the vast majority of the C-band licenses up for grabs in the FCCs blockbuster midband spectrum auction. As expected, Verizon spent the most: a whopping $45.5 billion for around 3,500 total licenses. According to the financial analysts at Evercore, Verizon acquired an average of 160MHz of spectrum across the entire US. The operator announced a $25 billion loan from JPMorgan Chase Bank to help pay for the licenses. AT&T came in second by spending $23.4...