Round 1 is over and the bidding went over $750,000,000 Verizon and US Cellular are not winning any licenses during round 1 If you want to look at what is going on, here is the auction web page then click on View Auction Results to see what is happing in each market. I will not be posting when each round is over If you want to know more about the auction here is a link Some the popular companies useing poxy names Barat Wireless, L.P. = US Cellular Dolan Family Holdings LLC = Cablevision SpectrumCo LLC = TimeWarner and Comcast with Sprint helping out Wireless DBS LLC = News Corp (Direct TV) EchoStar (Dish Network) If you know any proxy names please put them on this thread
How do I go about proving that a proxy name is a cover name for a company? I was surfing on the auction site and I ran across "Public Service Wireless"; I suspect this is really Alltel bidding in GA/AL. The areas "Public Service Wireless" was bidding are either in existing Alltel coverage or on the edge of it. Also, Alltel gained a presence into the aforementioned region last year by buying PSC Wireless (Public Service Cellular). EDIT: I was able to find out with extra digging from form 175... Public service Wireless is bidding with agreements with "other" parties... I do think this is Alltel in disguise
That might be Alltel, but I doubt it. Many companies that have sold there PCS and Cellular networks in the past are in this auction like CenturyTel, Shenandoah, and I think Nextwave is in this under a different name. My guess would be the owners of PSC before they sold to Alltel is Public Service Wireless.
there is even sattelite providers bidding... bundled services....think of the opportunity... if it dont work... you sell it off
For the weekend Verizon Wireless is winning Ø licenses so far :rotfl: :rasp: :lol: Red Rock Spectrum Holdings, LLC is winning the most with 33 licenses :hyper:
AUCTION NEWS: NextWave strikes back NextWave Telecom Inc.-backed AWS Wireless Inc. made three of the highest bids in the sixth round of the advanced wireless services spectrum auction, capturing—at least temporarily—the highly coveted Great Lakes regional 20-megahertz license as well as a 20-MHz license that covers 31 million pops in the Mississippi Valley and another that covers about 50 million pops in the West. The three bids total about $344 million. Leap Wireless International Inc. knocked off Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s fifth-round high bid for the 20-MHz F-block license for the Northeast region with a new high bid of $130.7 million. Leap also was the high bidder for the Central F-block license, which covers 40 million pops. Top 10 Highest Bidders by the end of Round 6 Bidders Net total of high bids 1. AWS Wireless $344 million 2. MetroPCS $244 million 3. Cricket $230 million 4. Cingular $168 million 5. T-Mobile $168 million 6. SpectrumCo $150 million 7. Dolan Family $143 million 8. Wireless DBS $61 million 9. Triad $24 million 10. Antares Holdings $16 million As of the sixth round, the high bids for the six F-block licenses that cover the continental United States belonged to NextWave (three F-block licenses), Leap (two licenses), and Cingular (one license). Cingular is, as of the sixth round, the high bidder on five licenses, including a 20-MHz block in the Southeast, a 10-MHz block in the Mississippi Valley, and licenses covering the metropolitan areas of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, and Miami-Ft. Lauderdale. The satellite and cable consortiums, who have been closely watched in the bidding, managed to hang onto a few licenses in the latest round of bidding. DirecTV and EchoStar Communications Corp. are the current high bidders on four licenses covering Alaska and Hawaii, as well as a 10-MHz license in the Northeast region that covers 50 million pops. Sprint Nextel Corp. and its four cable partners are high bidders on five licenses that cover Hawaii, as well as the Western, Central and Southeast regions of the United States. The regional licenses are 10-MHz D-blocks. So far, six of the original 168 qualified bidders have dropped out of the auction. The bidding has slowed from 731 bids in the first round to 223 in the third and 148 in the sixth and latest round of bidding. Of the 1,122 licenses on the auction block, 523 have received bids and nearly 600 have not. Auction Summary at the end of Round 6 Net Bids: $1,677,200,645 New Bids: 148 Withdrawn Bids: 0 Proactive Waivers: 7 Bidders that Reduced Eligibility: 4 Licenses with Provisionally Winning Bids: 523 FCC Held Licenses: 599 Eligible Bidders: 162 (of 168) Top 10 Highest Bids in Round 6 AW-REA003-F Great Lakes AWS Wireless Inc. $143,244,000 AW-REA001-F Northeast Cricket Licensee (Reauction), Inc. $130,709,000 AW-REA006-F West AWS Wireless Inc. $129,307,000 AW-REA002-F Southeast Cingular AWS, LLC $121,030,000 AW-REA005-F Central Cricket Licensee (Reauction), Inc. $99,431,000 AW-REA004-F Mississippi Valley AWS Wireless Inc. $71,519,000 AW-REA003-D Great Lakes MetroPCS AWS, LLC $65,111,000 AW-REA003-E Great Lakes MetroPCS AWS, LLC $65,111,000 AW-REA001-D Northeast Wireless DBS LLC $59,412,000 AW-REA001-E Northeast Dolan Family Holdings, LLC $59,412,000 If you go to this site, they have a link to show which company is using what name for the bidding: http://www.rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=27076
Let's not forget that there are, in most cases (especially for the regional licenses), several bidders who have placed the same bids...then the random number generator chooses one of the bidders to be the "high bidder"...when in actuality, there is a multitude of bidders who all placed the same bid for the license in question.
Odd. PSW is certainly PSTC/the Bond family, not Alltel... Alltel supposedly wasn't bidding in the AWS auctions...not to mention that the bulk of the former PSC's license area is rural and Alltel has more than enough spectrum for pretty much everywhere in that area. -SC
