12 | Will carriers bet big at the third mmWave 5G auction? (簡訳:キャリアは3回目のmmWave 5Gオークションで大きな賭けをしますか?) | ----------- | |
FierceWireless: Wireless | 2019-10-11 03:00 | ????0? | |
AT&T and T-Mobile emerged as top spenders at the 24 GHz auction, where AT&T spent around $980 million on 831 licenses covering 383 partial economic areas (PEAs) to bolster its mmWave holdings. On average AT&T has about 600 MHz of mmWave spectrum nationwide, executives have said. T-Mobile, meanwhile, bid about $800 million for spectrum licenses in the 24 GHz band and also scooped up 28 GHz spectrum for about $39 million. Verizon itself spent about $505 million on additional 28 GHz licenses and also won 24 GHz spectrum.AT&T and Verizon already are also operating on temporary licenses in the 39 GHz band, unlike the 37 GHz and 47 GHz bands, which are unencumbered. While T-Mobile and AT&T have already acquired high-band licenses, Goemmer said Verizon is still the clear leader in terms of mmWave spectrum assets. In that sense, he said the case could be made that companies like T-Mobile or AT&T might try to close the mmWave gap by accumulating more spectrum at the upcoming 5G auction.U.S. Cellular, the nation’s fifth-largest wireless provider, participated in the 24 GHz and 28 GHz auctions and also plans to get in on the action this time around. The carrier recently announced plans to launch 5G in Iowa and Wisconsin using 600 MHz spectrum in the first quarter of 2020. U.S. Cellular has said it will add a millimeter wave 5G layer down the line “as the technology and use cases continue to evolve.”In the 28 GHz auction, more narrow geographic license areas meant some carriers could more precisely target locations and smaller providers didn’t have to pay big bucks for more populous cities. In Green Bay, for example, Verizon plans to bring 5G to the NFL stadium, but it isn’t a market where Verizon has mmWave spectrum, according to Goemmer. But the smaller market is in Tier 2 U.S. Cellular’s footprint and the carrier was able to win both 28 GHz licenses for those counties in order to offer services, which Goemmer said provides some picture into the type of strategy smaller carriers might use for mmWave.While much mmWave spectrum has been freed up in the U.S., a lack of mid-band spectrum still poses a challenge. The FCC recently voted to seek comment on bidding procedures for an auction of the licensed portion of the shared CBRS 3.5 GHz band, which will take place next year and has garnered interest from a variety of players. The industry is also eyeing coveted C-band spectrum, which the agency is hopeful to take action on at some point this fall. -- ???????? | |||
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