WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s auction of 24 GHz
licenses started and ended last week after four rounds, netting more than
$216,000 for seven licenses in the western United States.
First Avenue
purchased the Denver-Boulder license for $62,400.
Napoleon Communications
L.L.C. bought four licenses covering Phoenix; Albuquerque, N.M.; Reno, Nev.; and
Las Vegas, bidding nearly $105,000.
Lynch 3G Communications Corp. agreed to
pay $49,000 for two licenses covering Davenport, Iowa/Moline, Ill., and
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, N.Y.
The FCC was not surprised that so few licenses
sold because the amount of the upfront payments indicated that no more than half
of the 880 available licenses could be won. The agency will schedule an auction
for the remaining 873 licenses in the future.
