Howard Buskirk

A prayer on the death of Her Majesty The Queen.

.@TMobile , as expected, dominated the 2.5 GHz auction, winning 7,156 licenses for $304.3 million, covering 2,724 counties, the @FCC announced Thursday. Only @Verizon came away with anything among the other major national carriers.

After late action in Guam, the @FCC's 2.5 GHz auction comes to an abrupt end, with net proceeds of $427.8 million. @TMobile is widely expected to walk away with many of the licenses. More should be known shortly.

.@FCC 2.5 GHz #5G auction didn't jump much in 2nd round Monday, now at $108.4 million.

For anyone watching the @FCC 's offshore NOI, comments now in from @NTIAgov, urging caution, support for administration's windfarm push. fcc.gov/ecfs/search/se…

.@FCC 2.5 GHz auction opens at $103.5 million. Bidding so far well below the last two #5G mid-band auctions.The C-band auction opened with $1.9 billion in bids in round one, 3.45 GHz with $672.4 million. Bidding starts again Monday.

.@FCC has been closed to the public since March 2020. “For those who have not been in these parts, you'll notice we have replaced the famed eighth floor with the 10th floor, so get used to it,” @JRosenworcel said.

.@FCC will reopen for visitors Thursday, first time the FCC’s new headquarters has been open to the public. July 14 meeting will welcome public and news media. @JRosenworcel announced “a new step back to the new normal, whatever normal looks like now.”

Second @FCC item, on improving wireless 911 call routing, is a pretty pure record refresh of 2018 NOI. The issue was controversial 4 years ago. Probably will be this time too. fcc.gov/document/impro…

.@FCC NOI teed up for June vote explores interesting issues on spectrum use/management offshore. Seems like it could lead to a lot more items down the road, or at least affect other items. FCC has only ever licensed spectrum for Gulf of Mexico. fcc.gov/document/facil…

Big day for 5G? The @FCC approves more than 3.45 GHz licenses won in recent auction. Seems like especially big development for @ATT and its one-touch strategy. fcc.gov/document/aucti…

More C-band uncertainty? @PeteButtigieg tells Senate subcommittee issues between carriers and @FAANews "won’t be completely resolved by this summer ... we are doing everything we can to pursue the technological solutions that I think will be an ultimate long-range fix."

The @FCC is taking on a very significant, but very thorny issue. OET officials say in a press call this is essentially a record refresh, though some of the data in the record was gathered a long time ago.

And the winners are ... NOI on receiver standards, FNPRM on wireless emergency alerts, main items teed up for relatively skinny @FCC April meeting. fcc.gov/news-events/no…

We're still waiting for the post on what items will be considered at the next @FCC meeting. Seems like it gets later and later.

.@JRosenworcel @abdavidson hold first of a series of promised monthly meetings to coordinate on spectrum. Revised MOU in the works. fcc.gov/document/fcc-n…

As previously reported in @Comm_Daily the @FCC has taken a hard look at Russian communications companies and potential security threats. Will be interesting to see if more actions follow.

Today marks two years since the last in-person @FCC meeting. The next meeting, on March 31, was online as the COVID-19 shut-down started. Who knew two years later everything would still be online only. TAC met today, with talk its next meeting in June could be in-person.

Interesting to me that since the @FCC put out another notice on the 2.5 GHz auction yesterday, no one has sent out a comment. This is the next #5G auction, and the only one in the works for now. fcc.gov/document/aucti…

Looks like the big surprises were relatively small bids by @TMobile and big bids by Dish. Not a surprise @ATT topped bids or that @Verizon sat out auction.