Garnering the whopping amount of 19.592B/USD for their 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction, the FCC closed the auction last March 18th. Nope, Google did not win a single license and, on the opposite side of company size, Bend Broadband did win a B block license for Oregon for 6.7M/USD. The big winner — Verizon Wireless winning regional licenses in the C block to build a footprint across the country for 9.63B/USD. And AT&T paid 6.64B/USD for some 227 licenses in the B block. The only bidder in the D block was Qualcomm, who paid 472M/USD for nine licenses… in fact, they were the ONLY D block bidder. Dish paid 711M/USD for 168 E block licenses, while Cox Wireless obtained 22 licenses in the A and B blocks for 304.6M/USD with an especially hefty price of 84.1M/USD for an A-block license in San Diego. Two A Block licenses were obtained by Paul Allen‘s Vulcan Capital for 112M/USD for the Pacific Northwest, which could certainly aid his cable holdings in that region of the country. In the final count, a total of 754 spectrum licenses were won by 99 winning bidders after 261 auction rounds—Washington, D.C.
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