Analysts no longer are betting when the C-block broadband personal communications services auction will end. Each time they do, it causes a bidding surge. As of Round 108, NextWave Personal Communications, DCR PCS Inc. and GWI PCS Inc. were in the lead as most active bidders; revenues during that round reached $10.047 billion.
The Federal Communications Commission kicked up the minimum bid increase percentage from 5 percent to 10 percent during Round 110 in order to spur bidders to the finish line. Washington, D.C.-based analyst Taylor Simmons told RCR this move “will reduce the number of rounds of back-and-forth before a basic trading area’s price gets too painful.”
Nortel selected as CDMA supplier
Bell Mobility announced it has selected Northern Telecom Inc. as its supplier of Code Division Multiple Access digital personal communications services network infrastructure equipment.
During the next five years, Bell Mobility said it expects to deploy nearly $300 million worth of CDMA infrastructure equipment.
NOTABLE QUOTE
“Management of spectrum should be the utmost priority, not the generation of money for the treasury.”
-Harold O’Dell, SMR WON board member. Story on page 3.
