Seffiks Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 After yesterday's wrap-up of the gargantuan Auction 73 to offload the newly-freed 700MHz spectrum, it looks like the two champions to emerge are Verizon and AT&T. Big Red has emerged with virtually all of the highly coveted C Block save for Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Gulf of Mexico, a logical move considering its recent foray into the wide world of open access. AT&T, meanwhile, has scored much of the B Block, giving it 12MHz of spectrum in many of over 700 "cellular market areas" nationwide. In total, Verizon laid out a whopping $4,741,807,000 to pick up the Block C airwaves, leaving early competitor Google in the dust -- and affirming rumors that Mountain View wasn't in it to win it, it just wanted to make sure the reserve price was met and open access rules were assured. Other winners include Qualcomm, which won bits and pieces of the B and E Blocks -- more MediaFLO spectrum, perhaps? -- and Frontier Wireless, scoring the overwhelming majority of the low-bandwidth E Block. Frontier is in cahoots with Echostar, though it's not clear how (or if) the new spectrum would augment its satellite TV service. Left out in the cold was the D Block, a wireless range which the FCC had required to be used in partnership with public safety groups; it failed to meet its minimum reserve price of $1.33 billion, which means that a new Auction 76 will be automatically spawned for bidders to have another go at it. Follow the break for the big winners, broken down by block. Block Big winner Total spent (approximate, across all blocks) A No clear winner B AT&T $6,636,658,000 C Verizon Wireless $9,363,160,000 D Qualcomm $472,042,000 (did not meet reserve) E Frontier Wireless $711,871,000 if you really want to understand the technical issues, read this article on gigaOM. The best part is the comments from people with radio engineering backgrounds.) http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/700mhz-explained/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Just a quick understanding for you people sense we here in the US are switching to digital signals on February, 17, 2009 in the US (the 700 MHz Spectrum is the analog signals) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flavicon Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 I thought the headline read 700 MHz Speculum. How disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllTheWrongWords Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Dude. Simple people terms please? What does this mean for the common man? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHIT$REAK Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 What the hell is going on in here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 sorry that is simple as it gets ( thats why i put For The Geeks) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Just a quick understanding for you people sense we here in the US are switching to digital signals on February, 17, 2009 in the US (the 700 MHz Spectrum is the analog signals) ......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHIT$REAK Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Fine, but what are you trying to tell us with this tread..? Does this affect us in any way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GucciCondom Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Did stocks shoot up or anything on these companies? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllTheWrongWords Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Just a quick understanding for you people sense we here in the US are switching to digital signals on February, 17, 2009 in the US (the 700 MHz Spectrum is the analog signals) SENSE. Its like since but on a 700MHz spectrum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 Fine, but what are you trying to tell us with this tread..? Does this affect us in any way? yes very much so for internet purposes ( you will have new internet speeds reaching 100MHz + anywhere in the USA via Wifi ( this means phones and pda/smartphones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 What does this mean for 802.11 b/g? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllTheWrongWords Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 So what youre trying to tell us is..... MOAR FASTS? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted April 6, 2008 Author Share Posted April 6, 2008 What does this mean for 802.11 b/g? we are way past them ( we are moving into 802.11 i Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pissdrunkwhat?! Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yinz n'at Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 this shit got me fuckgin hyped fuck yeah!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 we are way past them ( we are moving into 802.11 i Shit, this new laptop is b/g. Whatever, it still works for now, and that's all that matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoeLarryCurly Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 bummer, in terms of the google phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 bummer, in terms of the google phone. cosigned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted April 6, 2008 Share Posted April 6, 2008 I quoted ATWW's first post and wrote out a huge layman's response. And then I realized more than I wanted to write. Oh well. MOAR FASTS AND COOLER PHONES INDEED. This is also, in my mind, marks the beginning of a larger information infrastructure revolution. Seeing the development of the Semantic Web, the change in the interface of hand held devices, and the refocusing of embedded technologies I think we are in store for some crazy shit for the next ten to fifteen years and beyond. Anwho, megafuture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seffiks Posted November 9, 2013 Author Share Posted November 9, 2013 anyone realize what I was talking about back in 2008 now?? all this shit is so common place now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 I'm still not sure… Seems like it woulda been a badass time to get some stock in ATT tho They seem to be the big dog and this deal was what let them get there?? But I do know it's almost 5 years later and TV can still be picked up w analog antennae Local and messican stations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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