With the AWS auction winding down, bids late Fri. totaled $13.8 b...
With the AWS auction winding down, bids late Fri. totaled $13.8 billion after round 73. “The AWS auction could end next week based on the lack of activity and an increase in the bidding schedule and we do not…
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expect a material change in the high bids than leading bidders have obtained,” Pali Capital said Fri. in a research report. “Top bidders have not seen a material change in their high bids for the past 15 rounds. After 6 rounds yesterday, there was virtually no movement in the aggregate bid amount of $13.7 billion.” Pali calculations put top bidder T-Mobile as poised to pay $0.63 per MHz per POP for licensees, based on bids of $4.2 billion. Verizon Wireless, through Cellco, will pay $0.74 per MHz per POP and $2.8 billion total, followed by Spectrum Co. ($0.45, $2.3 billion)) and MetroPCS ($0.97, $1.4 billion).