Add to this that not all spectrum is created equal due to varying characteristics and where it is located in terms of frequency.
Crest Financial is mounting a court challenge as well as filing a petition to the FCC that this deal represents a diminution of value of all spectrum to be auctioned by the U.S. Government in the future.
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The regulator, Ofcom, said Everything Everywhere, Hutchison 3G U.K., Telefonica U.K., Niche Spectrum Ventures and Vodafone all won spectrum in the auction for the superfast airwaves.
Between them, Sprint and Nextel own nearly all the spectrum licences for the unused 2.5GHz frequency band.
Consolidate all government spectrum holdings under a single agency, perhaps the Office of Management and Budget, making it easier to determine which frequencies are unused or underutilized.
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But, in order to bridge the gap and build a LTE network robust enough to compete with Verizon, it will need all the spectrum it can get its hands on.
According to Deutsche Bank, Verizon has about 18 percent of all available spectrum on a population-weighted basis (including the spectrum recently obtained from SpectrumCo), compared to about nine percent each for Sprint and T-Mobile.
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After February 17th, no longer would Americans have to suffer through yet another poor analog broadcast, and no longer would we have to wait for all that spectrum to be freed up for much more spectacular things.
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If the goal were to maximize auction revenue and profits then the right approach would be to bundle all our spectrum and sell it to one firm, which would be willing to pay an enormous price to have a monopoly in the lucrative market with no possible threat of competition.
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With the proliferation of media from all points of the political spectrum and all points of opinion, why is it important for the taxpayers to still continue to fund public broadcasting?
As expected, T-Mobile has provided full disclosure today on exactly what it plans to do with all that juicy spectrum picked up in this summer's FCC auctions.
It is important to allow voluntary incentive auctions to occur, and to permit all market participants to take part, with the right to bid on all blocks of spectrum without restrictions.
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That is, Republicans all across the spectrum, from Susan Collins, probably the most moderate Republican in the Senate, to the most conservative, are talking about the IRS issue and saying that this is a chilling effect.
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"I think of course, if we work as hard as we can, both as officials, as team managers, as players all across the spectrum then definitely I think in the future we can be the best, " he believes.
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Verizon won this spectrum and all of the operators declared they would offer a new level of openness for all their customers, so Google achieved its goal even without winning any of the spectrum.
Meanwhile, Verizon has bolstered its spectrum position by securing all the approvals it needed to acquire a swathe of AWS spectrum from the cable companies.
Mr. CARTER: What's interesting is that they're really coming from all over the political spectrum.
The smaller carrier, Lee says, in its affiliation with Clearwire holds the most unused spectrum of all.
What we need are solutions, lots of them from all across the political spectrum, not anti-scientific posturing.
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Verizon Wireless says it now has wireless spectrum in all of the top 50 metropolitan service areas in the United States.
"I get why people awarding at the other end of the spectrum are all delighted with The Artist, " says Mr Wilson.
It's just that the way society works, most people don't think of themselves as on any kind of a spectrum at all.
By all means sell the spectrum and reap the profits, they argue.
But wind cronyism is now being questioned all across the political spectrum.
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It was the introduction to the "hard" side of the funk spectrum for all of us who who were rediscovering old records before eBay.
And economists from all across the political spectrum agree that giving tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires does very little to actually grow our economy.
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The same is true in industries all over the economic spectrum.
The team had also started several broad-spectrum antibiotics all at once, and this regimen had to be dialled back if they were to avoid breeding resistant bacteria.
It's a book that deserves to be read and debated by all sides of the spectrum as it speaks to a concern that the majority of Americans can share: If money makes you a "super citizen"--someone who is more aggressively engaged in politics, more able to place your children in the right schools, the right circles, the right non-paying internships--are we headed toward plutocracy, irrespective of party allegiances?
It all depends where on the spectrum of these traits each individual is starting from.
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