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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FCC Reveals Opening Bids for Broadcast Spectrum Auction
The FCC made considerable progress this week in planning for the voluntary auction of television broadcast spectrum targeted for next year. The commission released a 230-page document outlining auction procedures and setting specific application deadlines for broadcasters interested in selling…
AWS-3 Auction Finally Ends, Raising $45 Billion
The record breaking auction of AWS-3 spectrum is finally over, said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler at an FCC monthly meeting today. Wheeler did not reveal who the winners were, but he did say that in total the winners bid nearly…
FCC Aims to Maximize Unlicensed Use of TV Spectrum Post Auction
The FCC today took action aimed at maximizing unlicensed use of TV white spaces spectrum after the incentive auction of TV broadcast spectrum in the 600 MHz band is completed. The action took the form of two notices of proposed…
FCC Adopts 600 MHz Incentive Auction Rules
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…
Broadcast Spectrum Auction Plan Floated, Details Band Plan
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler envisions offering two classes of licenses in the upcoming auction of TV broadcast spectrum, reports technology news website Re/code. These would include restricted and unrestricted licenses, with restricted licenses reserved for “companies that don’t currently hold…
Proposal Seeks Spectrum Auction to Fund Broadband to Schools
The Center for Boundless Innovation in Technology has an idea for how to fund President Obama’s ConnectED initiative, which aims to bring 100 Mbps broadband to 99% of the nation’s schools within five years. In a white paper released today,…
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…
Legislation Aims to Free Up Government Spectrum in an Incentive Auction
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….
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…
FCC: We’re Still on Target for 2014 Incentive Auction
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…
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