214 Cleared To Bid In US Spectrum Auction

The Federal Communications Commission has said that 214 companies are eligible to bid in the 700 MHz Auction 73, a significant proportion of the 266 short form applications. Obviously Google (NSDQ: GOOG) qualified to bid, along with AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Alltel (NYSE: AT), Leap, MetroPCS, Paul Allen’s Vulcan Spectrum and TV companies Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) Systems, Advanced/Newhouse Partnership and Cox Communications and EchoStar (NSDQ: DISH). All the qualified bidders are in this PDF. With the demise of Frontline, people supporting its plan to build a wireless public-safety network with the D-Block license are looking at the incumbent telcos or Google to build the network, reports RCR Wireless.

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