Dish Network supports the FCC’s proposal to set a...
Dish Network supports the FCC’s proposal to set a reserve price for licenses in the upcoming H-block auction, it said. It also backed the commission’s plan to use hierarchical package bidding in auctioning the H block, “and in particular supports…
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the offering of a package comprising all markets in the contiguous 48 states,” it said in an ex parte filing in docket 13-178 (http://bit.ly/1eAztR6). Dish estimates the value of the H block “is at least $0.50 per MHz of bandwidth per population on a nationwide aggregate basis,” it said. Verizon’s purchases of AWS spectrum from Cox and Spectrum Co. “appear to have valued that spectrum at $0.61 per MHz-POP and $0.69 per MHz-POP, respectively.” As a result, financial institutions have estimated the value of the H-block spectrum to be between 62 cents and $1 per MHz-POP, it said.