AT&T, Comcast, Dish Network and T-Mobile were the big winners in the voluntary auction of TV broadcast spectrum in the 600 MHz band completed several weeks ago, the FCC announced this afternoon. Fifty 600 MHz auction winners, about half of…
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600 MHz Auction Satisfies Final Stage Rule
WASHINGTON, January 18, 2017 – With the results of today’s rounds of the forward auction, the bidding has satisfied the requirements of the incentive auction’s Final Stage Rule, meaning that the auction will successfully conclude in Stage 4. Bidding will…
An Examination of Apparent Disappointing 600 MHz Auction Results
With the 600 MHz auction results expected soon, it’s becoming increasingly clear that those results are likely to be disappointing. More and more industry observers are predicting that prices will be considerably lower than many initially expected — and lower…
Qualified 600 MHz Auction Bidders Include 28 Companies with Rural Wireless Bidding Credits
Twenty-eight companies with rural wireless bidding credits are on the FCC’s list of approved bidders for the upcoming auction of TV broadcast spectrum in the 600 MHz band. As expected, three of the four major national wireless carriers – AT&T,…
600 MHz Auction Target Meets Expectations: 126 MHz to be Available
The 600 MHz auction target announced Friday by the FCC is a satisfactory 126 MHz of spectrum, essentially meeting the target amount of spectrum the commission hoped would be made available for auction when it began planning the auction several…
Eighteen Companies with 600 MHz Auction Rural Bidding Credits Among Bidder List
Eighteen companies with 600 MHz auction rural bidding credits are among the 69 companies on the bidder list of companies approved to participate in the upcoming auction of TV broadcast spectrum, which will be repurposed to support mobile broadband. An…
FCC Adopts Rural Carrier Bidding Credit for 600 MHz Auction, Delays Other Key Issues
Updated later July 16 As expected, the FCC at today’s monthly meeting adopted a report and order that will give small rural carriers a bidding credit in the upcoming 600 MHz auction of TV broadcast spectrum. Although the commission did…
Wheeler Recommends Rural Auction Credits in 600 MHz Auction
Small rural companies bidding on spectrum in the upcoming auction of TV broadcast spectrum would have the opportunity to obtain 15% bidding credits if a proposal made by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler last week is adopted by the commission. Wheeler’s…
600 MHz Auction Plan Recommends PEAs, Paired Spectrum
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler late last week gave the other FCC commissioners a draft of rules that would govern the upcoming incentive auction of TV broadcast spectrum, which will be re-purposed for mobile broadband. Wheeler said the rules were created…
600 MHz Auction Proposal Seeks Middle Ground on License Area Size
The best structure for the upcoming 600 MHz voluntary broadcast spectrum auction would use a two-step process that would focus first on metro areas, followed by a rural auction, argues a new paper penned by NERA Economic Consulting. The paper…
Open Issues for 600 MHz Auction: Paired or Unpaired, EA or CMA?
There’s been a lot of public debate about whether limits should be placed on Verizon and AT&T as the government makes plans to auction TV broadcast spectrum in the 600 MHz band. But considerably less attention has been paid to…
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