The FCC Monday raised from 10 to 14 the number of daily bidding r...
The FCC Monday raised from 10 to 14 the number of daily bidding rounds in the 700 MHz auction to bring it to a close. Bidding stayed focused on the B block. “If it doesn’t end in the last…
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two rounds today, it should be over by tomorrow,” said Tom Peters, a consultant with Wireless Strategies who’s tracking the auction. “Although it could theoretically go on for much longer, I don’t expect it will given the nature of the bidding that we've been seeing in recent rounds.” Round 243 Monday was the first with just one bid, Peters said. The advanced wireless services auction ran 17 rounds after the first single-bid round, he said.