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https://www.lightreading.com/5g/the-quiet-brilliance-of-t-mobiles-5g-spectrum-strategy/a/d-id/779589? Basically Money savings on 2.5 mostly rural auction are funding 600MHz purchases. Also mentions continuing purchases of 2.5 outright. Likely understates the amount of MHz. Auction going slightly faster with 4 auction sessions per day now, but still less than 80% "settled". After 18 rounds it is at $190 Million, with $400 to $800 Million expected. could go on for another month. check here for updates about 1 hour after each round: https://www.sashajavid.com/FCC_Auction108.php#county_details_table_overlay

life in the fast lane: 100,000 customers. breakeven under a year per building. Could run out of cash in 6 months. https://www.lightreading.com/broadband/fixed-wireless-access-(fwa)/starry-seeks-paths-to-bridge-its-funding-gap/d/d-id/779574?

Likely because it won't be paid for until the second half of next year: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-forks-over-35b-more-600-mhz-spectrum

Has not hit the FCC licensing database yet for these markets.

Never mind, works after I manually set the permissions.

Latest update is crashing on my android 6 LG G4 LS991 using AT&T Red Pocket sim. Signal Check Lite works. My guess is this is simply too old and should be blocked from installing, but just want to make certain. sent diags. (For the curious, I get bands 2, 4, 5, 12)

Almost at 76% licenses "sold" at $160 million. Like watching paint dry. Will check again in a few days.

Looking over the data so far, bidders can go back and reopen bidding on licenses that appeared settled. In the list below, not all counties are listed and only states with excess demand. Typically 3 licenses per county for rural areas and some urban areas. Here is how many licenses per state had demand greater than supply: State count AK 3 AL 14 AR 3 AS 6 AZ 9 CA 12 CO 76 DE 6 FL 10 GA 66 GU 3 HI 3 IA 99 ID 47 IL 39 IN 43 KS 231 KY 23 LA 14 MA 5 MD 16 ME 1 MI 86 MN 9 MO 79 MP 12 MS 73 MT 69 NC 26 ND 109 NE 18 NH 13 NJ 6 NM 51 NV 24 NY 13 OH 29 OK 9 OR 30 PA 24 PR 25 SC 20 SD 83 TN 76 TX 236 UT 49 VA 22 VT 5 WA 65 WI 59 WV 26 WY 29

Anything of interest in the release notes?

Great work. What where the upload speeds on the 140MHz (NR CA should do that much better than LTE)? To be clear, were you able to access all 190MHz at this time? Any other bands in this CA mix? Thanks.

Does the Samsung Band Selection app work? (useful with Verizon and AT&T; this type of development takes a while thus they may not have blocked it yet.)

round 11: move past $150 Million https://www.sashajavid.com/FCC_Auction108.php#county_details_table_overlay VA is 97% settled. 100% for C3 licenses.

Title says it all: https://www.rcrwireless.com/20220805/spectrum/2-5-ghz-auction-crawls-to-143-million

https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/dish-launches-sign-page-boost-infinite-launch-later-fall Screen alludes to using all three networks (Dish then AT&T or T-Mobile). Could be great if done right.

It certainly would help T-Mobile with VoNR (VoLTE) , given that 700MHz always appears over capacity.

Round 10: 75% of the licenses are settled nationwide. Looking at the c3 licenses which should favor T-Mobile, 87% are settled, 11% contested, 2% no bids. If T-Mobile controls all the BR licenses, then they would have 88MHz of contiguous plus 6MHz at the start of Band 41 to uses or lease. Personally I hope that T-Mobile gets at least 100MHz contiguous everywhere feasible. CA 88% settled, 6% no bids, 6% still competing. Counties: Lassen(3), Modoc(2), Siskiyou(2), Mapiposa, Napa.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/tmobile-sprint.pdf see pages 12 and 13. There may be further deals that are technically public, but we can not easily find. Seems to be that it has now become cheaper for Dish to decline. If it does so, the AGs in the various states may have a say on it.

Round 9 settled licenses remain about the same. Slight nibbling of unsold licenses (will try to see if FCC is reducing the price. All details not loaded correctly so this will need to wait.) Total FCC potential revenue is now $143 million. about $62 million each for c1 and c2 with c3 at about 18 million.

I think having a forth carrier in urban areas with it picking between the other carriers in rural areas is viable. Not what they agreed to with the DOJ, but doubt they would be killed off if they don't make that commitment level, especially if our usual historical trends continue and we switch to a republican administration.

Round 8 settled licenses remains about the same. NE is 93% settled. C3 license unsettled counties: Burt, Cuming, Wayne.

My bad. I meant to say Verizon or AT&T. Thus AT&T.

https://www.lightreading.com/open-ran/dish-expected-to-walk-away-from-t-mobiles-800mhz-spectrum/d/d-id/779468? Why wouldn't Dish try to knock down the price or get other sweeteners? Won't be over until its over. Still like band 5 plus band 26 being redone to better fit the 5G era.

The lack of band 70 support is why I am not signed up for Genesis. I keep checking for nr70 permissive change on the s22. Also waiting for frequency band details on the Qualcomm x70 modem or other phones.

iirc T-Mobile has band 5 there, so who ever is short band 5: Verizon or T-Mobile AT&T.

WA has King county with no bids. It it listed as heavily encumbered. Only 36% of the licenses are settled. TX has no demand in Harris (Houston), c1 & c2 for Bexar, c3 for Coryell and Hamilton. All are heavily encumbered. about 63% of the licenses are settled. Here are the follwing counties with unsettled bids for c3: Angelina Armstrong Atascosa Blanco Borden Bosque Brewster Briscoe Brown Burnet Camp Childress Coke Coleman Collingsworth Comanche Concho Crockett Culberson Dallam Deaf Smith Donley Edwards Falls Foard Gaines Gonzales Gray Hall Hansford Hardeman Hartley Hays Hemphill Hudspeth Hutchinson Irion Jack Jackson Jeff Davis Kimble Lampasas Lavaca Lipscomb McCulloch Mason Menard Milam Montague Moore Nacogdoches Newton Ochiltree Oldham Panola Pecos Presidio Rains Reagan Roberts Runnels Rusk San Augustine San Saba Schleicher Scurry Shelby Sherman Sterling Sutton Terrell Titus Tom Green Tyler Val Verde Wheeler Wood Yoakum Young Bastrop Caldwell Lee Sabine