FCC spectrum auction bidding ends at $19.6B

Re:FCC spectrum auction bidding ends at $19.6B by NelsonMinar on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:33PM (#13629394)

This is the auction to consolidate television broadcasts, to free up some UHF space for other uses. Here's some background beyond what the article says. If anyone has a summary / picture of exactly what frequencies become available and what their bandwidth is, I'd love to see it.

The FCC's page for the auction. Includes a nifty dashboard view of the bidding. https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/fcc-initiatives/incentive-auct...

The Wikipedia article has some of the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_reallocation#Broadcas...

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Re:FCC spectrum auction bidding ends at $19.6B by revelation on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:56PM (#13629520)

It seems impossible to find what spectrum they have actually sold here, just meaningless bandwidth numbers (I'm happy to sell you 1 GHz of spectrum any time, I'll tell you the carrier).

Apparently it is UHF channel 30-51, or 566-692 MHz.

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Re:FCC spectrum auction bidding ends at $19.6B by upofadown on Sunday February 12, 2017 @03:26PM (#13630517)

Actually, UHF TV channels 38-51 (614-698). Channel 37 is the radio astronomy hole which now gets to be part of the guard band between TV and wireless. So in one sense the outcome is fairly optimal in that there is less spectrum wasted on the guard band.

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Re:FCC spectrum auction bidding ends at $19.6B by drmpeg on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:46PM (#13629463)

http://www.tvtechnology.com/Portals/0/TVT_20141119-1515.jpg

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