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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November 12, 2020 – The FCC’s Office of Economics and Analytics and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau have announced that 57 applicants are qualified to bid in the upcoming C-Band auction (Auction 107). There were 17 entities that submitted applications to participate but failed to qualify. Bidding in Auction 107 is scheduled to begin on December 8, 2020.

Qualified

A total of 57 applicants are qualified to bid in Auction 107:

8538 Green Street LLC  (small business bidding credit)

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

AMA Communications, LLC  (rural service provider bidding credit)

AT&T Spectrum Frontiers LLC                                                             

Bluegrass Consortium  (rural service provider bidding credit)

C&C Wireless Holding Company, LLC                                                           

C494C17Y Co.

Cal.net, Inc.  (small business bidding credit)

California Internet, L.P. dba GeoLinks  (small business bidding credit)

Canopy Spectrum, LLC  (small business bidding credit)

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

Cellco Partnership

Cellular South Licenses, LLC                                                                    

Central Texas Telephone Investments, LP  (rural service provider 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)

Etheric Networks Incorporated  (small business bidding credit)

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

Grand River Communications, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Granite Wireless LLC                                                                    

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)

Leap Communications, LLC  (small business bidding credit)

LICT Wireless Broadband Company, LLC

Little Bear Wireless L.L.C.

Mark Twain Communications Company  (small business bidding credit)

MB License Co LLC

Mountain West Technologies Corporation  (rural service provider bidding credit)

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

NewLevel II, L.P.

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

Northern Valley Communications, LLC  (small business bidding credit)

Nsight Spectrum, LLC                                                                    

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)

PVT Networks, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Radius Broadband Holdings, LLC  (small business bidding credit)

Resound Networks, LLC  (rural service provider bidding credit)

SAL Spectrum, LLC 

Skylake Wireless, LLC  (small business bidding credit)

Smith Bagley, Inc.  (rural service provider bidding credit)

Starwood Holdings LLC  (small business bidding credit)

T-Mobile License LLC

Tarkus Enterprises, LLC dba Zumacom  (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

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

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

Widespread Wireless, LLC  (small business bidding credit)

Wisper ISP, LLC

Wu, Wanning  (small business bidding credit)

ZIRKEL Wireless, LLC  (small business bidding credit)

 

Not Qualified

There were 17 entities that submitted applications to participate but failed to qualify:

BEK Communications

Clear VU Technology

CSC Wireless, LLC

Daviess-Martin County Rural Telephone Corporation

Evolve Cellular Inc.

FiberLight LLC.

Fond du Lac Communications, Inc

Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc

Kerr, Kevin G

Milling Sr., Frederick

Netmaker Communications

Pine Belt Cellular, Inc.

Skywave Wireless Inc.

Sound Internet Services, Inc.

Texoma Communications, LLC

Tzedakahs Row, Inc.

Viasat, Inc.