The U.S. Federal Communications Commission Auction 108 offers three blocks of spectrum in the 2.5-GHz range (2496–2690 MHz) band. The three blocks offer 49.5 megahertz, 50.5 megahertz, and 17.5 megahertz allocations.
The use of spectrum sharing is among the notable auction elements. The 10-year renewable licenses will be available as an “overlay” of existing license holder rights in the same spectrum.
The overlay licensees have the responsibility not to interfere with the original licensee’s operations. Of course, many of the original licenses were educational institutions who might originally thought they would use the spectrum to support TV broadcasting. In most cases, that has not happened, which is why so much of the allocated 2,5-GHz spectrum remains unused.
Most observers expect much of the value of the spectrum will be to support 5G mobile operations in rural areas. It might be argued that the spectrum is most valuable for T-Mobile, which acquired huge swaths of 2.5-GHz assets when it acquired Sprint.
Were T-Mobile to win licenses in the new bands, it would remedy a patchwork of license rights in the 2.5-GHz region.
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