700 MHz Spectrum Auction - and te winners are …
Posted Friday, March 21st, 2008 by Alex IonLadies and gents the winners of the 700 MHz Spectrum auction have been announced and the big winners are Verizon and AT&T. Verizon managed to get most of the C Block, leaving Google to bite the dust, but rumors say the big G never wanted it and participated just to see the reserve price met and the open access rules followed. The other big winner was AT&T that manage to score a big portion of the B Block.
| Block | Big winner | Total spent (all blocks) |
|---|---|---|
| A | No clear winner | |
| B | AT&T | $6,636,658,000 |
| C | Verizon Wireless | $9,363,160,000 |
| D | Qualcomm | $472,042,000 (did not meet reserve) |
| E | Frontier Wireless | $711,871,000 |
via Engadget
