The number of new bids in the Federal Communication Commission's ongoing 700 MHz spectrum auction held steady at around 50 during each of this morning's rounds, showing continued interest in a small number of A-, B- and E-Block licenses.Bidders grabbed at the A-Block license...
E-Block licenses continued to draw the biggest bids at the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction sputtered along.The block received $9.1 million in new bids during today's first three rounds, nearly matching the $9.3 million it drew during the same period yesterday. B-Block...
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the small-business bidding suit against the Federal Communications Commission remains intact, an action with potential implications for two major spectrum auctions. The 3rd Circuit, while declining to force the FCC to rule on a...
Attention again centered on B-Block licenses as the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction slogged on.B-Block licenses received 45, 47 and 48 new bids in today's first three rounds, as the auction's total potential winning bid amount rose to $19.467 billion. Overall activity...
THE 700 MHZ AUCTION, continuing to crawl toward an end likely punctuated by a disappointing D Block failure, will not remain totally within the Federal Communications Communication's province when bidding finally ends. Congress is about to jump into the fray.Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman...
Proponents of blind bidding claim the nearly $20 billion in pledges for 700 MHz licenses as well as the possible addition of a few new players (though unlikely national) in the wireless space vindicate their emphatic embrace of the no-name competition methodology. And who...
Bidders in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction continued their squabble over just under 100 licenses that appear to remain in play. The opening three rounds of bidding today drew 93, 99 and 100 new bids, which was a bump from the...
Auction 73's slow creep towards exhaustion continues unabated with new bids remaining below triple figures, though interspersed with the occasional head scratcher. So it was yesterday afternoon when a bid popped up for the then unclaimed C-Block license package covering Guam, the Northern Marina...
Perhaps taking a cue from "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King," the Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz auction is teasing us with the potential that it could all be over very shortly. New bids dropped to double digits during the three opening...
The Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction slogged past the $19.3 billion mark yesterday afternoon on its slowing march to an eventual conclusion that analysts note might not come until the end of the month. The final three rounds of bidding conducted yesterday...
The Federal Communication Commission's Auction 73 picked up this morning where it left off on Friday with new bids continuing to slowly shrink and new potential winning bid amounts adding smaller amounts to the auction's total purse.Click here for complete 700 MHz auction coverage....
The Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz auction headed into its third weekend on a slow, but steady pace. Some, or all - we won't know until the auction is over due to the FCC's blind-bidding rules - of the 199 bidders left in the...
The Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz auction began its first day of six rounds-per-day bidding pretty much the way it left the previous five rounds-per-day of bidding: A dwindling number of new bids focused on the A, B and C Block that are adding...
The rut continued in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz auction with the final rounds of the day mirroring what transpired during the opening three rounds. Rounds 44 and 45 received 172 and 174 new bids respectively, with additional potential winning bids totaling $14.3...
The grind is on. After topping the $19 billion mark yesterday -- prodded by some arm-twisting from the Federal Communications Commission -- the 700 MHz auction resumed this morning with a trio of rounds, each slower than the previous one. Round 41 was good...
The Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz auction slowly crawled past the $19 billion mark this afternoon. Bidders laid down 203 bids during round 40, the last round of the day, adding $19.7 million to a total auction pot of $19.02 billion.Click here for complete...
Sensing a slowdown in the proceedings, the Federal Communications Commission instituted its so-called "Stage Two Transition" beginning with this morning's round 36, effectively requiring 700 MHz auction participants to keep bidding or quit the game. The rule stipulates that bidders must be active on...
Apparently it wasn't a Super Bowl hangover.
Bidding in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz spectrum auction continued to slow today as bidders placed only 582 new bids during five rounds, adding just over $113 million to the auction's total haul. That number is...
The 700 MHz spectrum auction took another unexpected turn today as bidding on individual C-Block licenses usurped the previous high bid for a package of eight C-Block licenses covering the 50 states. While the Federal Communication Commission's Auction 73 continues to operate under blind-bidding...
THE DUST SURE TO BE LEFT in the wake of the 700 MHz auction is far from settled - with the final outcomes still unknown - yet, infrastructure vendors say they'll be ready for buildout plans the moment existing carriers or new entrants are...
WHAT TYPES OF DEVICES might ride on the 700 MHz frequency licenses now up for bid in the United States?The question is as open and varied as the 214 qualified spectrum bidders and their disparate strategies, analysts said."We don't know what the winners of...
It's still seemingly early in the game, but bidding in the Federal Communications Commission's 700 MHz auction is materializing into a good news-bad news auction of epic proportions.Click here for complete 700 MHz auction coverage.In less than two dozen rounds, bidding shattered the $13.8...
The landscape of the wireless industry is in flux as you read this story, with product launches, pre-announcements and hype flying by like so much confetti on the wind.Or is that confetti actually the cellular industry after being fed through a shredder?The traditional cellular...
Bidding in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 MHz auction continued to slow throughout today, though enough money has been thrown around to push total potential winning bids past $18.5 billion after round 26. Auction 73 is now set for a well-deserved weekend break, after...
