Congress Favors Public Auction for C-Band Spectrum
Rep. Doyle said CBA proposal of private auction was “deeply disturbing.”
Rep. Doyle said CBA proposal of private auction was “deeply disturbing.”
LPTVs and translator stations now have until Nov. 14.
Auction for 37, 39 and 47 GHz spectrum slated for Dec. 10 start.
Says phased transition is ahead of schedule.
FCC chair Ajit Pai said the FCC will be holding two spectrum auctions in short order, which means next November and soon thereafter.
Now that the FCC’s broadcast spectrum, or repack, auction has ended, the hard work begins.
The completion of the FCC’s spectrum auction could prove to be a boom for TV white space deployments in the U.S., per the WhiteSpace Alliance.
FCC will host a post-auction procedures workshop Monday, March 13.
The fourth and final forward TV spectrum incentive auction has now closed at $19,632,506,746, but the auction itself is not over. Forward auction winners will next vie for specific frequencies.
The commission boosted the activity requirement and the opening bid price per round as the auction wears on.
OTA Broadcasting wants to sell stations to wireless providers in a post-auction aftermarket.
Broadcast attorneys are asking incentive auction organizers when they can talk, already.
The TV spectrum incentive Stage 4 Round 11 forward auction raised a total of $23 million ($23,013,000) when bidding in the round concluded Thursday afternoon.
On January 18, two days before he left office, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler released a statement lauding the completion of the incentive auction.
The Federal Communications Commission added another $59 million in auction proceeds after Round 5 concluded Monday afternoon.
The closing criteria of the television spectrum incentive auction have been met at $18.2 billion in bids for 70 MHz of public airwaves.
Bidding in the Stage 4 forward auction is tentatively scheduled to begin Wednesday, Jan. 18, the Federal Communications Commission said today.
Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 10, the bidding schedule will change to four rounds per day.
Two House GOP lawmakers asked FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to freeze the regulatory process.
Well, in what I can only say is stunning, the second stage of the spectrum auction concluded immediately following the end of the first round of bidding in the forward auction portion.
Give us liberty from the 39-month repack deadline, or give us a waiver process, the National Association of Broadcasters told the FCC.
The planets will have to align just so if broadcasters are successful in transitioning to new or shared channels following the spectrum auction with a limited amount of money and time.
The FCC today announced that 62 applicants will be bidding for TV spectrum in the forward incentive auction.
“Big Wireless, Inc.” is the name given qualified forward-auction applicants who can bid on all spectrum parcels and some reserved spectrum, but who don’t get bidding credits reserved for smaller outfits and rural service providers.