There are many rounds of bidding and market participants value each potential bid differently based on their own technology, their own spectrum holdings, and how they foresee building out the spectrum.
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To address the crush, carriers are offloading data traffic from dense urban areas onto Wi-Fi networks, while also seeking out more spectrum.
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They go on to point out that airtime providers might want to raise the amount they charge for data to ration this scarce spectrum out.
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These give out a continuous spectrum of light, and thus affect a wide range of frequencies that are of interest to astronomers.
Dr Kirkpatrick points out that the spectrum (and thus the chemical composition) of a methane dwarf is very similar to that of Jupiter.
Instead of over-funding and over-regulating critical infrastructure, liberalize networks like transportation, electricity, and telecommunications, and get spectrum out of the oversight of regulators so secondary markets can price, allocate and optimize it.
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"Worse yet, it takes 5 MHz of spectrum out of the hands of a new market entrant and puts it in the hands of an incumbent that already has more than 200 MHz of wireless spectrum, " said Blum.
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This risk-on attitude and low interest rates are pushing investors further out on the risk spectrum than realized.
Chinese-language media across the political spectrum point out that China is at a turning point and critical stage of reforms amid unprecedented challenges.
You see other investors reaching out on the credit spectrum.
The most that can be said about these bonds is that if you (a) reach out on the maturity spectrum, (b) hold the TIPS for the full duration and (c) hold them inside a tax-deferred account like an IRA, then you will have a positive return.
The first buyer that comes to mind is LightSquared, which is trying to roll out a wholesale-only fourth-generation network using what was satellite spectrum for a terrestrial build-out.
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However, spectrum never goes out of style and that is how he usually bails himself out.
In today's digital age, that call is going out to an even wider spectrum.
The key thing politically is many British people on all sides of the political spectrum desperately want out of Europe.
Or Thompson might just use the spectrum to round out Towerstream's portfolio.
It now seems ready to pull the plug and more determinedly go forward in its LTE build out utilizing the extensive frequency spectrum that Clearwire has at 2.5 Ghz.
T-Mobile needs more spectrum to build out a true 4G network and might turn to either Clear or LightSquared for assistance, or it could make a play for Sprint.
The aim there is to work out whether part of the spectrum which is being auctioned late next year will provide a mobile broadband alternative for people who struggle to get a decent service down a fixed line.
Meantime, paging companies have not built out services on much of the spectrum auctioned by the FCC earlier in the decade.
Further, because it owns more spectrum and can build out more bandwidth at each cell site, Clearwire could have an advantage over time.
Those frequency licenses were transferred to Clearwire by Sprint in their deal a couple of years ago so Sprint will be out in the cold when the spectrum becomes the collateral.
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My reasons are many and include the fact that Clearwire is using a wireless technology that is not mainstream (WiMAX) on a portion of spectrum that requires building out many more cell sites than its competitors, and that it has chosen to enter major metro markets already served by wired DSL, cable, and a number of wireless broadband companies.
Hutchison subsequently pulled out of a consortium bidding for German spectrum because of higher-than-expected cost.
The U.S. government makes available too little wireless spectrum for what could turn out to be tomorrow's fastest-growing industry: wireless Web networks.
Cablevision could be hoping that EchoStar Chief Executive Charles Ergen wants to keep the spectrum badly enough to buy out Cablevision.
Cisco Systems (CSCO) came out on the other side of the spectrum.
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