{"id":6670,"date":"2008-03-19T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/spectrum-auction-concludes.html"},"modified":"2008-03-19T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T14:19:11","slug":"spectrum-auction-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/spectrum-auction-concludes.html","title":{"rendered":"Spectrum Auction Concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, the bidding is now over for the 700 MHz spectrum. The US governemnt racked up just under a cool 20 billion dollars as a result. I guess we can thank the telecommunications industry for those fat rebate checks we will be getting over the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>That is of course, if you are eligible for one of these gifts from Uncle Sam. If not, why are you still reading&#8230; Shouldn&#8217;t you be golfing or on the corporate jet? <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mtstatic\/FCKeditor\/emoticons\/clapping.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"s-nJvnDmFQqr72aLmVOYTfdA:u-AFrqEzfCYOxvgm5sm0lnS9weWWrLIn3Sow:r-0_1143806324\" href=\"http:\/\/internetcommunications.tmcnet.com\/topics\/broadband-mobile\/articles\/23206-700-mhz-auction-comes-end-after-261-rounds.htm\">700 MHz Auction Comes to End After 261 Rounds<\/a><br \/>\n<a id=\"s-cybrGTISAgMo1vO1lQG8Rw:u-AFrqEzdmB3PKGn17vf6WONSRGXDQpx-lvA:r-1_0\" href=\"http:\/\/internetcommunications.tmcnet.com\/topics\/broadband-mobile\/articles\/23299-some-cheers-fcc-700-mhz-auction.htm\">Some Cheers for FCC 700 MHz Auction<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/19\/technology\/19fcc.html?ref=media\">Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $19 Billion <br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, the bidding is now over for the 700 MHz spectrum. The US governemnt racked up just under a cool 20 billion dollars as a result. I guess we can thank the telecommunications industry for those fat rebate checks we will be getting over the next few months. That is of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,171,172,160,163,212,199,156,118,174,191,219,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670"}],"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=6670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}