AWS-3 Spectrum Auction Over, Bids Total $44.89 Billion
Duopoly gets bigger
And here we go - AT&T and Verizon get bigger by default. Adding to their AWS treasure trove of spectrum for capacity and speed. While smaller companies who could really do good with it in the markets they need it, like T-Mobile, are shut out.
With this massive win by AT&T and Verizon, I hope the FCC states, "Okay, you have more than enough, you are no longer in a spectrum crunch, so you need not bid on 600Mhz spectrum, you have more than enough spectrum in all bands to last you for a few decades" and then let T-Mobile, Sprint and USCC scoop it up.
With this massive win by AT&T and Verizon, I hope the FCC states, "Okay, you have more than enough, you are no longer in a spectrum crunch, so you need not bid on 600Mhz spectrum, you have more than enough spectrum in all bands to last you for a few decades" and then let T-Mobile, Sprint and USCC scoop it up.
This is what happens when you have a finite resource like spectrum and try to run a no rules auction. I like government intervention less than most, but on a government run finite resource auction, they need to have rules to avoid a government sponso...
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"let T-Mobile, Sprint and USCC scoop it up."
That's not going to happen. The only stipulation for purchasing spectrum should be that the winner must actually use the spectrum rather than hoard it, effectively freezing out its competitors.
That's not going to happen. The only stipulation for purchasing spectrum should be that the winner must actually use the spectrum rather than hoard it, effectively freezing out its competitors.
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Not only will the FCC allow the big two to participate in the 600Mhz auction, it and the owners of said spectrum are counting on it. The spectrum will be the most money generated that only the super financially balanced carriers will be able to afford...
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If T-Mobile or Sprint wanted it they could afford it. They have very large parent companies. Those parents companies don't think they need that Spectrum. Plus over 50% of the population is with Verizon and AT&T so them getting this spectrum it helps...
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