The FCC Wireless Bureau identified 14 complete applications out...
The FCC Wireless Bureau identified 14 complete applications out of 34 applications to bid in the H block auction next month. Each of the 20 applicants with incomplete applications will receive overnight correspondence “indicating the information that is required to…
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make its applications complete,” the bureau said in a public notice (http://bit.ly/1bgTpXd). Corrected applications must be filed by 6 p.m. ET Dec. 18, it said. PCS Partners, Teleguam Holdings and Lynch 3G Communications are among the companies which submitted incomplete applications, it said (http://bit.ly/IOx5Lo). NTelos, Triad 8, Puerto Rico Telephone Co. and others have filed complete applications (http://bit.ly/IsM8d7). With a sufficient number of bidders, the FCC confirmed that the auction will be Jan. 22, said Paul Gallant, a Guggenheim Partners analyst. The commission “is in a position to grant Dish’s request for the flexibility it wants to potentially convert its AWS-4 uplink to downlink spectrum,” he said in a research note. If Dish is granted this request by Dec. 22, then it agreed to bid about $1.6 billion i the auction (CD Nov 13 p5). “By ensuring the H block auction will happen, Dish will (if the FCC approves its waiver) lower its E block transmit power, which is a key step toward making Verizon and AT&T’s A and B blocks of spectrum more usable."