UPDATE: FCC Announces Results Of Record-Breaking C-Band Auction – $81.1 Billion In Gross Bids, With All Licenses Won

February 24, 2021 – The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau has announced the results of Auction 107 – the auction of new flexible-use overlay licenses in the 3.7–3.98 GHz band. Auction 107, commonly referred to as the C-Band Auction, raised a total of $81,114,481,921 in net bids and $81,168,677,645 in gross bids, with 21 bidders winning all of the available 5,684 licenses. A list of all winners is available as Attachment A to the Bureau’s Public Notice.

The five bidders with the largest total gross winning bid amounts from both the clock and assignments phases are as follows:

• Cellco Partnership (Verizon) – $45,454,843,197

• AT&T – $23,406,860,839

• T-Mobile – $9,336,125,147

• U.S. Cellular – $1,282,641,542

• NewLevel II, L.P. (David Grain) – $1,277,395,688

The five bidders winning the largest number of licenses were as follows:

• Cellco Partnership (Verizon) – 3,511

• AT&T – 1,621

• U.S. Cellular – 254

• T-Mobile – 142

• Canopy Spectrum, LLC – 84

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October 19, 2020 – The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau has announced the status of 74 short-form applications received for the 3.7–3.98 GHz band auction – Auction 107.[1]

• Complete – 38

• Incomplete – 36

Each applicant that has submitted a complete short-form will become a qualified bidder upon making its required upfront payment to the FCC by the November 2, 2020, deadline. Each applicant that has been deemed “incomplete” will receive a letter identifying each deficiency in its short-form application. To become a qualified bidder for Auction 107, each incomplete applicant must resubmit its application, having corrected any deficiencies, and make the required upfront payment by the deadline of 6:00 p.m. ET on Monday, November 2, 2020. Bidding in Auction 107 is scheduled to begin on December 8, 2020.

Complete Applications – 38

A total of 38 short-form applications, submitted by the following entities, have been deemed complete:

8538 Green Street LLC  (small business bidding credit)

Agri-Valley Communications, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

AT&T Spectrum Frontiers LLC                                                             

Carolina West Wireless, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Cellco Partnership                                                                       

Central Texas Telephone Investments, LP  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Clear VU Technology  (small business bidding credit)

Cox Communications , Inc.

Cross Telephone Company, L.L.C.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

East Kentucky Network, LLC  (rural service provider bidding credit)

FTC Management Group, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Granite Wireless LLC                                                                    

Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Hilliary Acquisition Corp 2016, LLC  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

InfoWest, Inc.  (small business bidding credit)

LICT Wireless Broadband Company, LLC

Mark Twain Communications Company  (small business bidding credit)

Milling Sr., Frederick  (small business bidding credit)

NE Colorado Cellular, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Nex-Tech Wireless, L.L.C.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Nsight Spectrum, LLC                                                                     

Pine Belt Cellular, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Pine Cellular Phones, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Pioneer Telephone Cooperative, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Poka Lambro Telecommunications, Ltd.  (small business bidding credit)

Resound Networks, LLC  (rural service provider bidding credit)

SAL Spectrum, LLC 

Skywave Wireless Inc.  (small business bidding credit)

Starwood Holdings LLC  (small business bidding credit)

Uintah Basin Electronic Telecommunications, LLC  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Union Telephone Company  (rural service provider bidding credit)

United States Cellular Corporation

Universal Electrical Contractors

Viasat, Inc.

W.A.T.C.H. TV Company  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Whitewater Wireless, L.P.  (small business bidding credit)

ZIRKEL Wireless, LLC  (small business bidding credit)

Incomplete Applications – 36

A total of 36 short-form applications have been deemed incomplete. Each of these applicants will receive a letter identifying each deficiency in its short-form application. To become a qualified bidder for Auction 107, each incomplete applicant must resubmit its application, having corrected any deficiencies, and make the required upfront payment by the deadline of 6:00 p.m. ET on Monday, November 2, 2020. The incomplete applications are as follows:

AMA Communications, LLC

BEK Communications

Bluegrass Consortium

C&C Wireless Holding Company, LLC

C494C17Y Co.

Cal.net, Inc.

California Internet, L.P. dba GeoLinks

Canopy Spectrum, LLC

Cellular South Licenses, LLC

CSC Wireless, LLC

Daviess-Martin County Rural Telephone Corporation

Etheric Networks Incorporated

Evolve Cellular Inc.

FiberLight LLC.

Fond du Lac Communications, Inc

Grand River Communications, Inc.

Kerr, Kevin G

Leap Communications, LLC

Little Bear Wireless L.L.C.

MB License Co LLC

Mountain West Technologies Corporation

Netmaker Communications

NewLevel II, L.P.

Northern Valley Communications, LLC

PVT Networks, Inc.

Radius Broadband Holdings, LLC

Skylake Wireless, LLC

Smith Bagley, Inc.

Sound Internet Services, Inc.

T-Mobile License LLC

Tarkus Enterprises, LLC dba Zumacom

Texoma Communications, LLC

Tzedakahs Row, Inc

Widespread Wireless, LLC

Wisper ISP, LLC

Wu, Wanning

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[1] Auction Of Flexible-Use Service Licenses In The 3.7–3.98 GHz Band; Status Of Short-Form Applications To Participate In Auction 107, AU Docket No. 20-25, Public Notice, DA 20-1227 (Oct. 19, 2020), https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-20-1227A1.pdf.