According to a report from The Wall Street Journal (The Wall Street Journal).
While AT&T was the largest spender with $9 billion, Dish spent $7.3 billion, followed by T-Mobile with $2.9 billion. Verizon was notably absent from the auction. A number of smaller players have also been put on the list, such as the Three Forty-Five Spectrum, which you can see at Le site de Light Reading.
The auction officially ended in November, but the FCC hasn’t publicly revealed the winning bidders yet (PDF). Bids totaled nearly $22.5 billion, making it the FCC’s third largest spectrum auction to date. Just $80 billion C-band auction last year (Verizon contributed more than half of it), and $44.9 billion AWS-3 auctioned in 2015 Exceeds this amount of expenses, as shown Next TV (passing by light reading).
However, when it comes to using the 3.45GHz band, light reading He says companies will have to deploy new radios on cell towers that have the ability to transmit signals through them. C-band-enabled smartphones may already be able to use the band, light reading Note also, since they both fall under the 3GPP n77 standards covering 3.3 GHz to 4.2 GHz, which current 5G smartphones are already using.
Although the 3.45GHz band is close to the C band. The Wall Street Journal Note that it is unlikely to interfere with aircraft equipment. Verizon and AT&T are Ready to deploy C-band 5G extended services on January 19 After the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) else Posted twice Because of aircraft safety issues.
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