[1]After 83 rounds, the 700 MHz auction is limping along with a just a handful of small bid increases on minor pieces of spectrum. The last few rounds have seen increases of $3 million to $5 million in new bids or about 0.03 percent change in the total amount raised by the FCC.
It appears the C-Block portion is over as the bidding has stopped at $4.7 billion. The D Block, the spectrum reserved for a private/public partnership for public safety, doesn't have any qualified bids. So far, the auction has a total of $19.5 billion in bids.
Now everyone is sitting on the edge of their seats wondering who walked away with most of the C Block spectrum. And the FCC is wondering what went wrong in the D-Block auction.
For more about the auction:
- read this article [2] from TelecomWeb
- check out our 700 MHz coverage [3]
Related articles:
C Block meets its reserve, open access sticks Report [4]
New rule should end auction soon Report [5]
Links:
[1] http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/telecomweb.com/;sz=180x150;ord=021450
[2] http://www.telecomweb.com/tnd/259878.html
[3] http://www.fiercewireless.com/700-mhz-wireless-spectrum-auction?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
[4] http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/700-mhz-auction-c-block-meets-its-reserve-open-access-sticks/2008-01-31?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
[5] http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/700-mhz-auction-new-rule-should-end-auction-soon/2008-02-06?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal