March 19th, 2008
And simply to quote one of the folks who’ve reported it, Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm;
“The 700 MHz auction ended yesterday, and the $19.59 billion going to the Treasury looks like a lot until you realize the government’s total budget is $2.9 trillion. But now the waiting (and speculating) can begin.”
Who paid the $4.75 billion for […]
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March 11th, 2008
Spectrum Auction Coming To A Close?
It appears that way…
Michal Lev-Ram tells us, on a topic that seemingly most have forgotten about;
Wireless spectrum auction winding down
“The federal government’s high-profile wireless spectrum auction will likely end in the next few days. That means we could soon find out who won the last major chunks of spectrum available in the United States, which […]
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January 31st, 2008
From Saul Hansell at The New York Times;
“After four more rounds of bidding today (Wednesday), the total bids reached $11.6 billion. That’s good news but for one little detail. Included in that total is $4.3 billion for a block of frequencies called the C block. This represents the single most attractive license in the auction […]
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January 24th, 2008
If you’re following the 700Mhz auction…
700MHz Auction Pulls In $2.8B Worth of Initial Bids
“The FCC kicked off its highly anticipated spectrum auction Thursday with two rounds that brought in $2.8 billion worth of bids by day’s end. Stakeholders are bidding on a valuable swath of spectrum that will become available once television broadcasters shift from […]
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January 24th, 2008
That’s what Stephen Labaton writes at The NYT about today’s 700 MHz auction of prized licenses to now available radio spectrum airwaves.
“And the licenses are on the auction block just as it is becoming obvious to industry players and investors that wireless broadband is rapidly becoming the next big thing, the mobile Internet.
The latest government […]
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