Looking to fill in the gaps of its 2.5GHz mid-band coverage, T-Mobile spends $304 million to dominate the FCC's Auction 108.
today shared the breakdown of the winning bids. After 73 rounds, the auction took in $428 million, well short of the tens of billions of dollars that the C-band auctions collected. One reason for that was the expected dominance of T-Mobile, which is exactly what happened with the auction.T-Mobile led the way with $304,325,290 of winning bids for 7,156 licenses in 2,724 counties. Overall, 7,872 licenses were sold, and 145 licenses were unsold.
But mid-band spectrum travels farther than mmWave with 5G download data speeds up to 10 times faster than those found with low-band 5G signals. This is why both Verizon andFierce Wireless also made an interesting point about T-Mobile's 2.5GHz spectrum. Getting its hands on these airwaves was the reason why the carrier spent $26 billion to buy Sprint more than two years ago. Sprint had a huge amount of 2.5GHz spectrum that T-Mobile wanted.
T-Mobile was helped by its knowledge about certain leases it previously entered into for 2.5GHz spectrum A third-party firm called WCO Spectrum has reportedly been trying to work out deals to purchase the spectrum from the aforementioned legal institutions. The report states that T-Mobile has been using the legal brain power at its disposal to come up with some kind of legal maneuver that would prevent the schools that own the 2.5GHz spectrum from selling to WCO.
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