May 15, 2014 — Washington, D.C. –The Federal Communications Commission today adopted rules to implement the Broadcast Television Incentive Auction. The two-sided auction will use market forces to recover spectrum from television broadcasters who voluntarily choose to give up some…
Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives this week aims to encourage government agencies to give up or share their spectrum holdings in exchange for receiving some of the proceeds from an auction of the spectrum to wireless service providers….
FCC officials today said they believe the agency is still on track to conduct a voluntary incentive auction of TV broadcast spectrum in 2014. In addition the commission today took steps that could boost the use of unlicensed high-frequency spectrum…
Lawmakers soon are expected to approve legislation enabling the FCC to conduct a broadcast spectrum incentive auction—and President Obama could sign the legislation as early as this week. According to news reports, the legislation calls for television broadcasters to voluntarily…
The FCC has released the winners in Auction 103 of 5G millimeter wave spectrum in the 37 GHz, 39 GHz and 47 GHz bands, and it looks like the nation’s largest mobile carriers won the vast majority of the spectrum….
The FCC will vote later this month on a proposal from commission chairman Ajit Pai to auction 280 MHz of spectrum in the C-band. Satellite operators that currently use the band to distribute television programming would be compensated for the…
WASHINGTON, December 10, 2019—The Federal Communications Commission commenced the next of its 5G spectrum auctions today. This morning, bidding began on spectrum in the upper 37 GHz, 39 GHz, and 47 GHz bands (Auction 103). The FCC is making 3,400…
The FCC set the stage today for more auctions of 5G spectrum. At today’s monthly meeting, the commission adopted rules for the auction of millimeter wave spectrum in the 37, 39 and 47 GHz bands and approved a plan to…
Auction 102, comprised of 5G spectrum in the 24 GHz millimeter wave band, closed today, raising just over $2 billion, the FCC said. All but five of the 2,909 licenses available for auction had winning bids. The identity of winning…
The FCC’s second 5G millimeter wave auction completed its clock phase today, having raised nearly $2 billion. The auction, known as Auction 102, includes wide 100 MHz swaths of spectrum in the 24 GHz band. The amount of funding ultimately…
The controversy over CBRS band spectrum was contentious, but ultimately it may pale in comparison with what we’re seeing and likely will continue to see with regard to the adjacent C-band. The C-band includes 500 MHz of spectrum between 3.7…
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