Sprint won’t participate in the FCC’s upcoming AWS-3...
Sprint won’t participate in the FCC’s upcoming AWS-3 auction but “will continue to evaluate the opportunities presented by the upcoming 600 MHz incentive auction,” a spokesman said Friday. Industry observers had anticipated that Sprint wouldn’t get involved in the AWS-3…
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auction due in part to its interest in next year’s incentive auction (CD Sept 12 p1). Friday started an eight-week “quiet period” when “few to no” secondary spectrum transactions are likely to occur because parties interested in bidding in the AWS-3 auction can’t speak to one another during the two months before the auction’s Nov. 13 start date, said Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer Fritzsche in a note to investors. The “explosive” growth in mobile data usage since the U.S.’s last significant spectrum auction in 2008 and significant uncertainty about the incentive auction mean carriers will “see this as their last chance to get their hands on some spectrum for a while (at least from the government),” Fritzsche said.