The 700 mHz auction is over

As reported by the Asso­ci­ated Press, Reuters and two arti­cles in today’s New York Times, the FCC’s auc­tion for the 700 mHz spec­trum has ended. The auc­tion started in Jan­u­ary, as I dis­cussed in my 30 Jan­u­ary 2008 arti­cle. The win­ners bid a com­bined total of US$19.59 billion.

The FCC is not dumb — buy­ers must pay in full. Their names will be released within the next 10 days.

Many other blogs are dis­cussing this topic, includ­ing Ven­ture­Beat, CrunchGear, Dai­ly­Wire­less and PhoneScoop.

Tagged as: FCC, radio, spectrum, telecom, television, USA