[1st-mile-nm] FCC Announces Results of World's First Broadcast Incentive Auction

[Richard Lowenberg]

FCC Announces Results of World's First Broadcast Incentive Auction

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db0413/DOC-344397A1.pdf

http://www.telecompetitor.com/about-half-of-fifty-600-mhz-auction-winners-are-rural-companies

In the forward auction, wireless carriers bid $19.8 billion on mobile 
broadband spectrum. A total of 50 winning bidders won 70 MHz of licensed 
spectrum nationwide. A total of 14 MHz of spectrum is available for 
unlicensed use and wireless microphones. On a nationwide basis, 70 MHz 
is the most mobile broadband ever auctioned below 1GHz by the FCC. Among 
the largest winners are T-Mobile, Dish, Comcast, and US Cellular.

According to the FCC, 23 of the 600 MHz auction winners are rural 
carriers that are seeking rural bidding credits.  Those credits allowed 
the carriers to place higher bids than they will actually have to pay. 
Qualified rural bidders get a 15% discount off of the amount they bid.

Among listed rural winners are New Mexico wireless service providers:

Plateau Telecommunications, Inc.:   5 licenses

Smith Bagley, Inc.:  12 licenses

RL

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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
1st-Mile Institute     505-603-5200
Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504,
rl at 1st-mile.org     www.1st-mile.org
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