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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

Round 7 did not change the settled licenses much. Now at $135 Million total. Ky is about 93% settled. Only Harlan has an unsettled c3. SC is about 76% settled with c3 active bids still occurring for Allendale, Beaufort, Dillion, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Marion,

At the end of round 6, we have a lot of bids dropping out. 72% of the licenses are now settled nationwide. In Ohio Licking county is settled. 83% of Ohio 2.5 ED licenses are now settled for this auction. In WV, for c3, only the Mineral county contest remains, 90% of the overall licenses are now uncontested. In Minnesota, all is settled, except: Kittson Marshall Polk Wilkin

I view Dish as a beta wireless company even if you ignore Genesis. They just leave so many loose ends. At first only new customers could get the price reductions, but only online. When I signed up for a three month deal (did not trust them for a year) it comes back and tells you the $45 rate is monthly. You have to trust them that it will be only every 90 days (I eliminated autopay until after 60 days). Now I was just given the option on another plan that was excluded. There was no publicity of this change, it just happened. Look at 5g. With AT&T the icon appears to be on all the time, 5g or not. When using T-Mobile you sometimes get it other times not. This seems to be related to the sim card interaction with the phone model or maybe being in a market with Genesis. Talk to stores about anything technical? Russian roulette odds of finding someone knowledgeable IMO. Now it does appear that they are trying to set up intelligent systems to make up for this. Telephone was quite friendly and tries to be helpful. Great potential, but I agree that it sounds like Sprint.

That is being done separately. For a while T-Mobile has been buying up ED licenses when possible else signing long term leases. We have a separate thread on FCC auctions which is covering 108. Short version is most of the counties only have one bidder, and c3, which is most attractive to T-Mobile, has the least competition.

Round 5 is posted to the above links. Ohio is about the same (bids slowly increasing on contested licenses). Let's look at WV. In terms of the c3 license that would benefit T-Mobile most, it is only contested in Kanawha and Mineral counties. 78% of the 3 licenses are uncontested.

https://www.lightreading.com/5g/tepid-demand-taxation-fears-drag-at-25ghz-spectrum-auction-for-5g/d/d-id/779397? If bids end up where expected, and licenses with only one bid are effectively done, there could be a huge disparity in license costs from high demand to low demand areas. If the bidding ends as predicted, and it takes the FCC another month to complete additional paperwork and process payments, the T-Mobile could be adding any new spectrum to its existing sites in October/November. Rural performance could drastically increase plus many more areas could be opened up for Home Internet as well

Been following these guys for a long time. Should have posted about them before. Here is an interesting article about their current status: https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/starry-likes-its-chances-during-these-tough-economic-times

You can get your own data here (must filter first): https://auctiondata.fcc.gov/public/projects/auction108/reports/product_status I looked at Ohio. 54% of the licenses only have 1 bidder at the end of round 3, The only counties that are not settled in any of the 3 licenses are: Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Lake, Licking, Paulding, Putnam, Williams. Licking is Columbus. The rest are up north towards ichigan (Go Bucks!!) or Ontario (within 3 counties of the border). My hope is this means T-Mobile goes to at least 88Mhz contiguous band 41 in 88% of the Ohio counties.

auction 108 round 3 now added. Link to data files does not work yet: https://www.sashajavid.com/FCC_Auction108.php#county_details_table_overlay

On many Samsung phones, the unlocked phone has far more bands available (at least with the s2 ultra and a52 5G).

It would be nice in areas where one carrier has it all to straighten 2.5Ghz licenses out. I would start by getting rid of the radius licenses, then duplicate BRS licenses. Then consolidate the legacy licenses into 50, 50, 50, 44. Failing that, I hope the c3 and c1 could work out a lease agreement for the 6Mhz at the start of the 2.5GHz spectrum.

Still seeing n7 in neighbors. Sent diag.

Some counties without BR (BRS) licenses showing in the FCC database are Greenbrier, Logan, McDowell, Mercer, Raleigh, and Summers in West Virginia. Some of these counties are partially covered by BR radius licenses. nothing showing on Cellmapper.net. West Virginia use to have a number of small WISPs. T-Mobile 2.5 strategy here seems to be to acquire those BR and ED licenses or leases, several of which are pending.

Looking around this morning at the first round ED results. Some surprising places did not get bids. Most have encumbrances or Native American lands (possible requests in process). This includes places like Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Las Vegas, Sacramento plus unsurprising places like Alaska. I will leave it to others to drill down in the counties maps links above in the FCC tool to see what is happening. Some may likely be wrongly priced. I would hope that T-Mobile has placed a bid for almost every county for all three frequency areas. Likely other bidders are speculators, WISPs, Dish and AT&T. Verizon is possible but unlikely IMO. I am assuming that future bids can only be placed on counties where a bidder had a bid in the prior round. C3 is the most important ED frequency range for T-Mobile in most places given how it surrounds BRS. If you look at Ohio, There is competition for c3 on in the following counties: Defiance Henry Lake Lorain Licking Wood Erie Hancock Fulton Putnam Williams Paulding This means 72 counties are uncontested for c3. Lets look at a typical county in detail and see what this means. Guernsey county is located at I-70 and I-71 and has the small city of Cambridge OH. Without C3 it has the following 2.5GHz: License Start frequency End frequency Bandwidth B065, WQLW506 2496 2502 6 B065, WQLW506 2602 2614 12 B065, WQLW506 + WQYK862, WQYK973 2618 2673.5 55.5 (WQPV228 - Shenandoah Cable Television, LLC is listed by the FCC but is only in adjacent counties) Assuming c3 plus internal BRS guard bands, it changes to this: License Start frequency End frequency Bandwidth B065, WQLW506 2496 2502 6 B065, WQLW506 + c3 + guard bands + B065, WQLW506 + WQYK862, WQYK973 + c3 2602 2690 88 If you add c2: License Start frequency End frequency Bandwidth B065, WQLW506 2496 2502 6 c2 + B065, WQLW506 + c3 + guard bands + B065, WQLW506 + WQYK862, WQYK973 + c3 2551.5 2690 138.5 If you also add c1: License Start frequency End frequency Bandwidth B065, WQLW506 + c1 + c2 + B065, WQLW506 + c3 + Guard Bands + B065, WQLW506 + WQYK862, WQYK973 + c3 2496 2690 194 Guard band use when frequencies are controlled by same firm on both sides have been approved for a while.

More details, credit u/porkpineapple on reddit: https://www.sashajavid.com/FCC_Auction108.php

Auction 108 first day: https://www.rcrwireless.com/20220729/spectrum/2-5-ghz-auction-raises-100-million-in-first-day

Checked Columbus permits for the last few months. Currently just a few Verizon, back to April and May is mostly Starry with a few AT&T T-Mobile and Verizon plus one Crown Castle small cell. I figure most work is now rural in our area.

Columbus n77 update: Most of the prior sites with n77 are now not only active, but are no longer high demand only, ie your drive up to them and see n77. New n77 sites have also been installed, thus the Verizon map is no longer grossly exaggerated, but rather is now just stretched, which the other carriers also regularly do. For example my house is supposed to get n77. I do not see it on the second floor, but it is now just a mile or two away.

If you hit a wall, remember that some of us have written millions of lines of code over time.

I would love an n7 kludge fix to reset it as n41 done as a line in settings (we have others like this) Why? I am locking in various Samsung phones to the current release where the Samsung band selector app still works on Verizon and AT&T. Whether you do this or not, I bought a pitcher of beer for your great work. Thanks.

Huawei equipment risk explained: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/politics/fbi-investigation-huawei-china-defense-department-communications-nuclear/index.html

New update rolling out for T-Mobile. https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-A326U/TMB/doc.html This likely wipes out the Samsung Band Selector app, but if phone is only on T-Mobile the dialer code for this likely still works. Unknown if it fixes NR41 SCP being reported as NR7.

https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/att-ramps-5g-mid-band-buildout s22 phone to hunt AT&T is basically now required