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Last Updated on:
Thursday, March 20, 2008
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FCC 700 MHz auction raises $19.6 billionThe US auction of 'Digital Dividend' UHF television frequencies raised $19.6 billion and is an encouraging precident for the future sale of UK television spectrum. This is more money than any auction in the FCC's history and will doubtless reflect well on the FCC Chairman Kevin Martin. Although overall the auction was a great success one block, Block D, dedicated to the creation of a public safety/private partnership nationwide, interoperable network, did not meet its reserve bid of $1.3 billion. As a result Kevin Martin is moving to "de-link" that portion of the spectrum to clear approval for the rest. On C-Block, the gross winning bids on the 12 licenses totaled $4.75 billion, exceeding the reserve price of $4.6 billion. This means that the open access rules that Google petitioned for are triggered and in theory will require the winner to let any legal mobile device or applications run on the network. At the time of writing bidders are still bound by anti-collusion rules and are not allowed to talk about their bids so it is not known who has won what.
FCC Auction 73 - 700 MHz Band FCC sets date for digital switchover UHF spectrum sale http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2007/
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