FCC grants licenses to winners of recent spectrum auctions
Posted Dec 5th 2006 2:59PM by Brian White
Filed under: Government, Podcasts
A few months after the FCC's advanced wireless services auctions concluded, the commission finally awarded about half of the 1,087 licenses that were bid on and won in the recent auction that was held during the August-September timeframe.
The FCC granted granted 550 of the 1,087 licenses won, and
they total about $12.2 billion in total net high bids from the sale. Expect a flurry of press releases from auction winners like T-Mobile USA, which was the largest winner in the auctions as it prepares to launch its own next-generation 3G wireless network.
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