Unreserved Spectrum Got Higher Prices in Canadian Auction, BTIG Says
The recently concluded AWS-3 auction in Canada shows the relative value placed on spectrum available to all carriers, BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk wrote Tuesday. In the Canadian auction, reserve spectrum fetched less than 10 cents per MHz/POP from smaller operators,…
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while unrestricted spectrum attracted winning bids of $2.40 MHz/POP, Piecyk said. “Interestingly, the prices paid at the Canadian auction were not far off the $2.71/MHz/POP from the U.S. auction of similar spectrum,” he said. “That throws some cold water on what we consider an absurd assertion by spectrum ‘truthers’ that Dish’s participation in the AWS-3 auction did anything more than reveal the true value that wireless operators assign to mid-band spectrum relative to the incremental cost to split cell sites.”