Qualcomm Inc. said Thursday that it will use the radio spectrum it won in a recent government auction to double the capacity of its mobile television service on swaths of both coasts. The wireless chipmaker paid $554.6 million for the old UHF channel 56 in the Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco regions. Qualcomm said the spectrum will give its MediaFLO USA service the ability to double offerings from Orange County, Calif., to Northern California on the West coast and from New Hampshire to Maryland on the East coast. MediaFLO will now have 12 megahertz of bandwidth in those areas, compared with 6 megahertz in the rest of the country.

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