Through this morning’s round 36, total bids in the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 topped $37.8 billion with 256 new bids placed in the latest round totaling $356.7 billion. The Auction 97 licenses split up a total of 65 megahertz of spectrum in the...
Big markets continue to feed record-setting auction
Bidders in the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 look to be parsing back activity heading into the upcoming holiday break, with total new bids per round falling below $500 million. Still a large chunk of change, but less...
Total potential winning bids for the ongoing Auction 97 proceedings have now nearly matched the combined proceeds gleaned from the three previous significant spectrum auctions, with no end yet in sight.
Through this morning’s round 28, total potential winning bids topped $34.6 billion. The latest...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
FirstNet receives $7 billion funding
FirstNet, you're one of the first good things to come out of government funds in a while. To understand what FirstNet is, why it's so important and how it will affect the tower industry, let's look at a scary example...
The need for spectrum is becoming grossly apparent as bidding in the ongoing Federal Communications Commission Auction 97 has surpassed just about every estimate through one week of bidding.
Following round 20 on Thursday morning, total potential winning bids had topped $25.7 billion, with...
The Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 is already more than halfway to the agency's minimum goal of $10.5 billion in total auction proceeds. At the end of today's first round, the total bid stood at $5.5 billion.
Bidding was heated on Friday with total potential...
After just four rounds of bidding, the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 97 has surpassed $2.8 billion, or just over one quarter of the auction’s total reserve price.
At the end of the latest round this morning, 1,141 of the 1,614 licenses up for bid had received...
In just the first round, the Federal Communications Commission quickly garnered nearly 20% of what it was hoping to generate from Auction 97, with more than 1,000 licenses attracting bids totaling nearly $1.8 billion.
As is customary in spectrum auctions, the bigger markets generated the most...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
Verizon picks up...
The Federal Communications Commission is set to begin its second wireless spectrum auction of the year this week, with 70 bidders officially qualified to participate in Auction 97.
Those participants will be throwing money at a total of 65 megahertz of spectrum in the 1.7/2.1...
Argentina auctioned 10 bands of spectrum and raised about $2.23 billion. The bands auctioned were 850 MHz, 1900 MHz, 1.7/2.1 GHz and 700 MHz. The auction focused on increasing the country's mobile Internet access, including LTE. Four pre-qualified companies bid in the auction: three market incumbents —Telefónica,...
The Federal Communications Commission’s ambitious plan to auction off 600 MHz spectrum licenses returned by broadcasters has been pushed until at least 2016. The FCC was looking to hold the auction proceeding in mid-2015.
In a blog post, Gary Epstein, chair of the FCC’s Incentive...
The Federal Communications Commission late last week rolled out a notice of proposed rulemaking connected to bidding plans for the planned spectrum auction of 600 MHz licenses.
The NPRM includes the potential to change rules tied to the FCC’s controversial designated entity program, which offers...
RCR Wireless News recently spoke with Trey Hanbury, a partner in Hogan Lovell’s Washington, D.C., office and a member of the law firm’s Technology, Media and Telecoms practice, on a number of Federal Communications Commission proceedings scheduled for the next couple of months tied...
The Federal Communications Commission is in the midst of piecing together the framework for the planned 600 MHz incentive auction, one of the most highly anticipated spectrum auctions in recent memory. That anticipation is not just due to the potential market-changing characteristics of the...
France’s Iliad is reportedly set to make at least one more run at acquiring a stake in U.S. operator T-Mobile US, though published reports indicate that the offer could fall on deaf ears.
Bloomberg is reporting that Iliad is set to throw out another offer...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News has made many questionable decisions over the years. One of which is agreeing to let a long-time industry observer provide commentary on what is chapping his hide across the wireless industry. His name is Hunter Gates. We call him...
The Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming AWS-3 spectrum auction — officially known as Auction 97 — is set to include up to 80 participants, including three of the nation’s four largest operators and Dish Network. Those three nationwide operators include Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and...
The Federal Communications Commission continues to make progress on crafting rules for the planned 600 MHz incentive auction, this week rolling out an information package targeted at television broadcasters.
The package is being sent to the owners of “Class A broadcast stations that Congress determined...
Deutsche Telekom’s attempt to find a new investor or owner of its U.S. operations appears to have stagnated, with the German telecom giant reportedly now considering ownership of T-Mobile US for at least another year.
According to Reuters, DT’s management is looking at maintaining its...
The Federal Communications Commission’s planned 600 MHz incentive auction has been tipped as the template for all future spectrum auctions, especially those that are to include spectrum already occupied by users. That template includes the promise of financial compensation for those entities that agree...
The Federal Communications Commission this week was set to host an “Open Internet Roundtable” discussion focused on mobile broadband tied to a court decision earlier this year challenging the FCC’s ability to set open Internet rules.
The roundtable was set to include representatives from wireless...
Sprint said it will not participate in the upcoming AWS-3 spectrum, choosing instead to conserve cash for a potential run at next year’s planned 600 MHz incentive auction proceedings. The announcement came on the final day for bidders to announce their intentions.
“Sprint has decided...
