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Sprint Hopes 600MHz Auction Permits Joint Bidding

Mar 26, 2015, 12:01 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure recently suggested the company might participate in the forthcoming auction for 600MHz spectrum if it is allowed to bid jointly with smaller carriers. Claure made the remarks during a roundtable discussion at the Competitive Carrier Association's Global Expo in Atlanta. "Hopefully the rules of the auction will allow us to participate," said Marcelo, noting the incentive auction will be a "great opportunity for us to lobby together to potentially form a coalition to go after this spectrum together." The 600MHz low-band spectrum is valued highly because of its propagation characteristics. Sprint said CCA members operate regional networks in areas it doesn't provide coverage, and vice versa. Allowing them to bid together would be advantageous to all involved and might let them actually win the licenses. The FCC hasn't finalized the rules for the auction yet, but it is scheduled to begin early next year. Surely AT&T and Verizon Wireless, which already own vast sums of low-band spectrum, will oppose any rules that might limit their participation or prevent them from competing for the licenses.

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rwalford79

Mar 29, 2015, 1:19 PM

Bad Idea

Anyone who teams up with Sprint will find two things working against them.

1. Sprint doesnt have capital to put into bidding for an appropriate amount of spectrum, or building it out. Just look at their own network that they barely finance, and have done a piss poor job of boosting the signal, let alone building out what they did have prior to their merger with Softbank, and look how bad it got AFTER the merger. Teaming up with Sprint will mean, Sprint reaps the benefit of another carrier footing the bill completely.

2. They (the company teaming up with Sprint, the same company paying for the whole fiasco) will essentially be paying for Sprint to compete against them. Sprint has more than enough spectrum, while they may not have the ...
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Slammer

It's difficult to take either of your two examples seriously.

They are just incisions to attempt another downplay on Sprint. There was no other useful information to display otherwise.

Maybe we should just let AT&T and Verizon snag more prime s...
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