BROWSING: Spectrum

India reduced the minimum price for airwave access in an attempt to sell mobile wireless service spectrum in a recent auction. This is the second time airwave access has been put up for auction in India, as the first sale in 2012 saw few takers.

The total bids in the Federal Communications Commission's auction of H-block spectrum reached $1 billion on Friday, with about $560 million left before the reserve price is met. There are currently five rounds of bidding per day in Auction 96, and when round 32 closed...

The New York economic area license continues to be the crown jewel of the Federal Communications Commission's auction 96, and drew even further away from the rest of the pack on Thursday to end with a high bid of nearly $217 million. Total bidding in...

The second day of five-round bidding in the Federal Communications Commission's H-block auction 96 ended with just 19 licenses still FCC-held, and a new bidding total of $781 million. The 23 auction participants had declined to bid on 40 licenses by the end of Tuesday,...

Bidders looking to snare H-Block spectrum hit the weekend having put up more than $400 million in potential winning bids as part of the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96. Through three days and nine rounds, 111 licenses had picked up bids totaling $401.3 million, adding...

Day two of the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96, also known as the H-Block, witnessed $85 million more in potential winning bids, driving up the total amount to just over $306 million. Each day of the auction at this point includes three rounds of...

The first day of the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 96 included three rounds of bidding and a total purse of more than $221 million pledged for the licenses up for grabs. Of the 176 licenses up for auction, 78 had received a potential winning...

The Federal Communications Commission is set this week to begin auctioning off 176, 10-megahertz spectrum licenses in the upper 1.9 GHz band known as the H-Block. The auction is scheduled to start on Jan. 22, with 23 bidders qualified to participate. Qualified bidders include a...

Get this: At this moment there is a spectrum auction happening not too far from where you are probably reading this. That is if you are reading this somewhere that is not “too far” from Canada, which is where that auction is happening.

Globalive withdraw its hat from Canada’s highly anticipated 700 MHz spectrum auction just one day before the event was set to get under way. Globalive, which operates under the Wind Mobile brand in Canada, was the fifth previously qualified participant to forgo the proceedings. Published...

With a freshly installed chairman and full complement of commissioners now in place at the Federal Communications Commission, the details of upcoming spectrum auctions are now taking center stage

The Federal Communications Commission has officially pushed plans to auction off 600 MHz spectrum licenses for use by wireless carriers until the middle of 2015, relieving pressure to meet a previous deadline of 2014. The announcement highlights the complex task ahead of the agency...

Canada’s plan to increase competition across its wireless market through the upcoming auction of 700 MHz spectrum assets appears to be sputtering as a handful of potential bidders have dropped out of the process. According to a Reuters report, four entities that had previously stated...

The battle over the size of spectrum licenses that the Federal Communications Commission will put up for bid in its highly anticipated 600 MHz incentive auction received another opinion as the Summit Ridge Group released a report touting the smaller, the better. The report, “Right-sizing...

The government’s plans to auction off 10 megahertz of spectrum in the upper 1.9 GHz band lost an interested party today as Sprint announced it would not participate in the auction of the H-Block assets. Speaking at an investor conference in New York, Sprint CFO...

With the Federal Communications Commission set to tackle as many as three spectrum auctions over the next 12 to 18 months, there is considerable debate as to how rules should be set up governing the bidding process. The domestic auction garnering the highest level...

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RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazil's 700 MHz auction is expected to take place during the first half of next year with the goal of providing enough spectrum bands for LTE expansion in the country, according to João Rezende, president of Brazil's telecom regulatory agency, Anatel, and Genildo...

Citing the recently ended government shutdown, the Federal Communications Commission has delayed the beginning of the H-Block spectrum auction by eight days, pushing the start date back from Jan. 14 to Jan. 22. The H-Block auction, which will be known as Auction 96, will...

Wireless carriers and trade associations looking to limit the level of participation of Verizon Wireless and AT&T’s in the planned 600 MHz incentive auction have increased their consumer-facing efforts with the launch of a new website mobilebroadbandcompetition.com. The site, which is backed by among others...

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The federal government’s ongoing slumber could have a real impact on the wireless industry connected to plans for a trio of spectrum auctions that were set to begin early next year. A number of attendees at last week’s PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show expressed concern that...

Canada’s plans to auction 700 MHz spectrum licenses will be contested by 15 entities looking to get their hands on wide-reaching spectrum set to be up for bidding beginning Jan. 14. Entrants will include established wireless giants Rogers Communications, Bell Mobility and Telus Communications, as...