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Death star and big red want to grab the 600mhz spectrum


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I'd like to see per market restrictions on how much sub 1Ghz spectrum can be held by a provider in a given county/market. If a provider already owns one of the Celluar licenses and 10Mhz or more of 700Mhz spectrum, then they need to be restricted from acquiring too much of the 600Mhz spectrum in a given market. 

Also, no provider should be allowed to own both sides of a Cellular license in a market. That should have long ago been an FCC condition for ANY merger or participation in any spectrum auctions. 

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I don't really see why the auctions need to be rigged in favor of Sprint or T-Mo. Both are owned by large international corporations that have money. Son talks a lot of shit about being number one. Maybe he needs to open the wallet and be prepared to outbid the others.

 

Same for Telekom. They have money. What's stopping them from winning these auctions? Are they still pissed about massively overpaying for Voicestream? That was 15 years ago. Sell it or get over it.

 

If you want to take on Verizon it's going to require real investment not rigging auctions and maybe winning small slices of spectrum. I'd rather see government stop hoarding spectrum but that might mean smaller bids which they don't want.

 

I get what you're saying but there is a difference.  No idea how much of DT's assets are available for T-Mobile US so they are left out.

 

Total Assets:

AT&T: $277 Billion (US)

VZW:  $274 Billion (US)

Sprint: $86 Billion (US)

 

Cash:

AT&T: $3.3 Billion (US) 

VZW: $53.5 Billion (US)  :o

Sprint: $6.3 Billion (US)

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I get what you're saying but there is a difference. No idea how much of DT's assets are available for T-Mobile US so they are left out.

 

Total Assets:

AT&T: $277 Billion (US)

VZW: $274 Billion (US)

Sprint: $86 Billion (US)

 

Cash:

AT&T: $3.3 Billion (US)

VZW: $53.5 Billion (US) :o

Sprint: $6.3 Billion (US)

VZW has $53 billion in cash after the Vodafone buyout? That's nuts!

 

 

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VZW has $53 billion in cash after the Vodafone buyout? That's nuts!

 

 

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Actually probably not, I forgot about that.  My numbers are end of year 2013.  The quarterly data should be available in a few days.

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Actually probably not, I forgot about that. My numbers are end of year 2013. The quarterly data should be available in a few days.

Oh, I forgot the deal didn't close until this year. It seems to me that Verizon had been planning the buyout for a long time.

 

 

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