AUCTION NEWS: Verizon Wireless kicks T-Mobile USA out of Hawaii
By Kelly Hill
Sep 6, 2006
WASHINGTON—Dobson Communications Corp. dominated round 85 of the
advanced wireless services spectrum auction, placing nearly half of the
new bids in the round. Verizon Wireless also re-entered the fray after
watching from the sidelines for much of the bidding. The carrier placed
a $4.1 million high bid on a 20-megahertz F-block license covering
Hawaii; T-Mobile USA Inc. had previously held the license.
Dobson had 21 new high bids on spectrum in Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania,
New York and Virginia. Dobson ended the round having bid a total of $63
million for 86 spectrum licenses. Round 85 had a total of 44 new bids,
including:
Auction Summary at the end of Round 86
Net Bids: $13,639,712,550
New Bids in round: 25
Withdrawn Bids: 0
Proactive Waivers: 1
Bidders that Reduced Eligibility: 3
Licenses with Provisionally Winning Bids: 1069
FCC Held Licenses: 53
Eligible Bidders: 106 (of 168)
* NextWave Telecom Inc. placed three high bids totaling $4.2 million for
spectrum in Louisiana and Albany, N.Y.
* T-Mobile USA came away with another three high bids for spectrum in
Portland, Maine, at a price of $2.2 million; Des Moines, Iowa, for about
$5.8 million; and Springfield, Ill., for $227,000.
* The Sprint Nextel joint venture with several cable companies outbid
T-Mobile USA on spectrum in Birmingham, Ala., for $10.7 million, and
bumped Cingular Wireless L.L.C. out of a license in the
Tampa-St.Petersburg, Fla.,-area with a bid of nearly $24 million.
The auction has now raised a total of about $13.8 billion and 106
bidders remain eligible.
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