The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the results of Auction 110, showing THAT&T, Dish Network and T-Mobile USA were the biggest winners for the 3.45GHz mid-band spectrum license.
AT&T has spent more than its competitors and has secured more licenses than any other bidder, pledging to spend $9 billion on 1624 licenses. Dish Network, which bid on Weeminuche's name, acquired 1,232 licenses for $7.3 billion.
T-Mobile U.S. has pledged to buy 199 licenses for $2.9 billion — the carrier has acquired MID-SPECTRUM assets through sprint acquisitions and is ahead of AT&T and Verizon in mid-band 5G deployments.
The auction generated $22.5 billion in revenue for the U.S. government, making it the third-largest spectrum auction in U.S. history, after the C-Band spectrum auction in 2021 ($81 billion) and the AWS-3 spectrum auction in 2015 ($44 billion).
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said auction 110 had "a significant increase in the number of successful bidders in each market" compared to the C-Band spectrum auction. She sees it as a positive sign that there are multiple bidders in the market. (c114 Jiang Junmu)