Using a recently forged deal with Real's Rhapsody as an example, McAdam pointed to possibilities for many new partnerships between Verizon Wireless and other companies. The Verizon Wireless chief also said that, during this week's CTIA show in Las Vegas, he'd taken note of a lot of improvements in browsers for wireless devices. Verizon Wireless will pay $9.36 billion for new FCC licenses that include a nationwide spectrum (with the exception of Alaska) in the C Block, along with 102 licenses for individual markets around the US. But meanwhile, in a conference call late yesterday, AT&T confirmed the hunches of some observers that the company didn't much want the C Block spectrum won by Verizon Wireless in the recent auction, anyway. AT&T execs told analysts and journalists that the spectrum will give the company 100 percent coverage in the 700 MHz spectrum in the top 200 markets in the US. AT&T had already won a chunk of the 700 MHz B Block spectrum.