AWS-3 spectrum auction continues, bidding nearly $44 billion

With the accelerated bidding schedule, and the fact that provisional bids have reached $43.7 billion, it looks like the current FCC auction of AWS-3 spectrum (1695-1710MHz, 1755-1780MHz, and 2155-2180MHz) will be ending soon.



After 92 rounds of bidding, the last series brought in a bit over $20 million from 49 bids overall. Busier series of bids had better than double the activity.



The bidding has not been even across board either. The 1755-1780MHz and 2155-2180MHz blocks of spectrum are paired (the former for the uplink, and the latter for the downlink), and so the majority of ...



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