AT&T, Dish, T-Mobile Dominate 3.45 GHz Auction
AT&T, Dish Network and T-Mobile were the three biggest bidders in the 3.45 GHz auction, the FCC announced Friday. AT&T bid $9.1 billion; Weminuche, a Dish entity, $7.3 billion; and T-Mobile $2.9 billion. Columbia Capital’s Three Forty-Five Spectrum bid $1.4 billion and UScellular $579.6 million. Verizon didn’t bid.
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“Thirteen of the twenty-three companies with winning bids in Auction 110 qualified as small businesses or as entities serving rural communities,” the FCC said: “In addition, compared to the prior 5G auction, this auction saw a substantial increase in the number of winning bidders per market: over one-third of the top 100 markets have at least four winning bidders, compared with 10% of the top 100 markets" in the C-band auction.