CBRS Auction at $2.6B 31 Rounds In
The citizens broadband radio service auction proceeds were at almost $2.6 billion Friday, after 31 rounds. That's a price of 12.5 cents per MHz/POP. New Street’s Jonathan Chaplin told investors Friday the auction is off to a “very strong start,”…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
likely due to bidding by Dish Network. “It always sucks for the carriers when Dish shows up for a spectrum auction,” he said. “The last time this happened prices went through the roof,” he said, citing the AWS-3 auction. New Street forecasts Dish will spend $6 billion, mostly on the C-band auction, but also on CBRS licenses. “We wouldn’t be at all surprised to see them spend more; it will all come down to whether they can find the funding,” Chaplin said.