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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / April 2004NextWave yields, returns 1550 MHz to FCC for re-auction
NextWave & the FCC reached an agreement late yesterday that will engender NextWave's emergence from bankruptcy proceedings later this year. To largely settle its debt to the U.S. Treasury, NextWave will return 72% of its PCS C or PCS F licenses to the FCC. Minus the 18% of its spectrum that it sold to Cingular last fall, NextWave will retain about 10% of its original licenses won at auction in the late 1990s. Key licenses that NextWave will keep will be primarily in the densely-populated northeast corridor, including the full PCS C 30 MHz in NYC, the remaining 20 MHz of the PCS C in Boston, and the PCS F 10 MHz in Philly, et al. Primary markets in which NextWave will concede or disaggregate spectrum back to the FCC for re-auction include: LA, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, et al. VZW & Cingular-AT&TWS - as the most active participants in the original so-called "NextWave re-auction" of 2000-2001 - should be salivating at the prospect of getting a second stab at much of this prime PCS spectrum covering entirely major markets. "http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/21/business/21spectrum.html?ex=1083124800&en=7fd2 1e8d68e6f575&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE" "http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20040421/tc_usatoday/nextwavet oreturnairwavelicensestofccforauction" http://rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=17782 http://rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=17802 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29412-2004Apr20.html Andrew -- Andrew Shepherd cinema@ku.edu cinema@sprintpcs.com http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/ > NextWave & the FCC reached an agreement late yesterday that will > engender NextWave's emergence from bankruptcy proceedings later this [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > getting a second stab at much of this prime PCS spectrum covering > entirely major markets. Maybe I shouldn't be considering buying the Milwaukee Brewers, and instead save my money for this Auction? :- > Maybe I shouldn't be considering buying the Milwaukee Brewers, > and instead save my money for this Auction? > > :-> The Brewers?? C'mon Phil- even you have to admit Sprint PCS wins more than the Brewers. Robert M. wrote: >>NextWave & the FCC reached an agreement late yesterday that will >>engender NextWave's emergence from bankruptcy proceedings later this [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > :-> What's a Milwaukee Brewer? <just curious>  Signaturejer email reply - I am not a 'ten' ICQ = 35253273 "All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of what we know." -- Richard Wilbur Check the National League (US) Central Division. Chris > Robert M. wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > What's a Milwaukee Brewer? <just curious> > Check the National League (US) Central Division. > > Chris National League of what? Colour me lost. Signaturejer email reply - I am not a 'ten' ICQ = 35253273 "All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of what we know." -- Richard Wilbur Jer - National League of "Major League Baseball". The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team. If you're still lost, baseball is a sport. See http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/ >> Check the National League (US) Central Division. >> >> Chris > > National League of what? Colour me lost. SignatureFrank Harris in San Francisco with an A620 > Jer - National League of "Major League Baseball". The Milwaukee Brewers > are a professional baseball team. If you're still lost, baseball is a > sport. > See http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/ Ohhhhhh, okay, I get it. I'm not a baseball (nor any other sport) person, so no wonder I was lost. Thanks. Signaturejer email reply - I am not a 'ten' ICQ = 35253273 "All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of what we know." -- Richard Wilbur In response to the NextWave accord w/ the FCC, I have produced yet another map, detailing the devolution of NextWave's PCS spectrum holdings. http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/nextwave_map.html Look to see where NextWave will retain licenses, where Cingular acquired airwaves from NextWave earlier this spring, and where the major wireless carriers will go toe to toe over much desired spectrum in the second re-auction of the cancelled NextWave licenses possibly as soon as later this year. Andrew -- Andrew Shepherd cinema@ku.edu cinema@sprintpcs.com http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/ >In response to the NextWave accord w/ the FCC, I have produced yet >another map, detailing the devolution of NextWave's PCS spectrum [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Andrew Cool map :) What do the striped areas indicate? The Manchester NH licneses went to Cingular but the color is striped green. > Cool map :) > > What do the striped areas indicate? The Manchester NH licneses went to > Cingular but the color is striped green. PCS license disaggregation. If I read my own map correctly - and I assuredly hope that I do - NextWave won at FCC Auction 5 the PCS C 30 MHz license for the Manchester, NH BTA274. Last fall, consummated this spring, from the full 30 MHz license NextWave disaggregated the PCS C3 10 MHz (light orange striping) to Cingular. Subsequently, upon finalization of the accord struck earlier this week, NextWave will return the remaining 20 MHz - the PCS C4+C5 (light green striping) - back to the FCC at which time the license will be cancelled for impending re-auction. For further example, in the Los Angeles BTA, from its full PCS C 30 MHz license NextWave disaggregated again the PCS C3 10 MHz block to Cingular as part of their spectrum transaction. NextWave is now returning an additional 10 MHz to the FCC for cancellation & re-auction. And NextWave is retaining a 10 MHz block of the original 30 MHz license for itself. Hence, the LA BTA displays tri-color violet (NextWave), orange (Cingular), & green (FCC) striping. As the dilapidated NextWave is now ultimately unlikely to ever emerge as a player in the wireless industry, the areas of utmost interest should be those in green - licenses cancelled/disaggregated to the FCC - which could become available at a second so-called "NextWave re-auction" w/in the year. Might VZW like to finally obtain significant spectrum in Oklahoma &/or Kentucky? Would Cingular - neglecting for the moment the potential gains of the merger - wish to acquire its very own licenses in Denver &/or Minneapolis? Perhaps ALLTEL would seek to substantiate its surrounding hinterland footprint by gaining entry into the major markets of Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cincinatti, Pittsburgh, &/or Minneapolis? Additionally, NextWave (violet or blue) will continue to control the full PCS C 30 MHz license - basically a sixth of all CMRS spectrum - in the most important market in the world: the New York BTA. Though not at auction, those licenses retained by NextWave in full or in part - particularly NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Detroit, & LA - will also be ripe for private bids by the major carriers. In NYC, AT&TWS currently holds 35 MHz (Cellular A-side 25 MHz + PCS E 10 MHz). VZW also holds 35 MHz (Cellular B-side 25 MHz + PCS F 10 MHz). Sprint PCS controls 30 MHz (PCS B 30 MHz). And T-Mobile & Cingular share 40 MHz (PCS A 30 MHz + PCS D 10 MHz). Look at the parity. Would not absorbtion in whole or in part of the essentially idle NextWave PCS C 30 MHz license - it has only been commercially utilized under special temporary authority by AT&TWS & T-Mobile immediately following September 11 - be a monumental addition to the spectrum portfolio(s) of the acquiring network(s) in NYC? Andrew -- Andrew Shepherd cinema@ku.edu cinema@sprintpcs.com http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/ |
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