https://tmfassociates.com/blog/2013/10/14/charlies-house-of-spectrum-cards/ Satellites, spectrum and other stuff Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:36:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 https://tmfassociates.com/blog/2013/10/14/charlies-house-of-spectrum-cards/comment-page-1/#comment-6252 Sorry, not interested: Sprint bows out of the PCS spectrum auction — Tech News and Analysis Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:50:51 +0000 http://tmfassociates.com/blog/?p=4595#comment-6252 [...] Sprint’s withdrawal, however, raises questions as to whether the auction will get enough bidders to meet the reserve price of $1.56 billion. Those proceeds are earmarked for the construction of a nationwide public safety communications network. (Update: Satellite broadband analyst Tim Farrar noted that that Dish has committed to paying the minimum reserve price for the spectrum if it takes the FCC option to reband its own nearby spectrum. Farrar has been predicting since October that Sprint would drop out of the auction.) [...]

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