{"id":4783,"date":"2006-09-18T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T16:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/tmobile-wins-advanced-wireless-spectrum.html"},"modified":"2006-09-18T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T16:54:23","slug":"tmobile-wins-advanced-wireless-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/tmobile-wins-advanced-wireless-spectrum.html","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile Wins Advanced Wireless Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like T-Mobile has won the bid for some <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/2006\/09\/18\/1902537.htm\">valuable advanced wireless spectrum<\/a> &#8212; the largest block of 120 licenses for $4.2 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Bidding on the wireless spectrum located in the 1710-1755 MHz and 2110-2155 MHz bands began in early August after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2005\/aug\/1170640.htm\">changes were instituted<\/a> last summer. The agency announced its intentions to auction off the spectrum back in December 2004.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/-t-mobile-usa-statement-conclusion-bidding-the-fcc-\/2006\/09\/18\/1902413.htm\">press statement<\/a>, T-Mobile, a unit of <!--ZZZLinkBegZZZ-->Deutsche Telekom&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmcnet\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Deutsche+Telekom\">News<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/enews\/subs.aspx?k1=%22Deutsche+Telekom%22\">Alert<\/a>)<!--ZZZLinkEndZZZ-->, said the licenses cover the continental U.S., Hawaii, Puerto Rico\/U.S. Virgin Islands, Alaska and major markets including New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. However, due to ongoing FCC restrictions, T-Mobile USA and Deutsche Telekom are unable to comment further at this time. The company won&#8217;t be able to divulge more information until after the conclusion of the FCC quiet period.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/2006\/09\/18\/1902537.htm\">details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like T-Mobile has won the bid for some valuable advanced wireless spectrum &#8212; the largest block of 120 licenses for $4.2 billion. Bidding on the wireless spectrum located in the 1710-1755 MHz and 2110-2155 MHz bands began in early August after changes were instituted last summer. The agency announced its intentions to auction off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,212,197,118,190,191,219,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}