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AWS auction bidders and their cash
Big money is chasing the AWS spectrum. The Sprint WiMAX announcement could make the bidding even more frenzied.
Aug 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday starts auctioning 1,122 wireless licenses for 90 Megahertz of spectrum airwaves. Following are some of the 168 qualified bidders and their linked entities:
Bidder: Linked entities: Downpayment: --------------------------------------------
Wireless DBS LLC DirecTV, EchoStar, $972.5 million
Liberty Media; SpectrumCo LLC Sprint Nextel, Comcast, $637.7 million
Time Warner, Cox; T-Mobile License LLC T-Mobile USA, $583.5 million
Deutsche Telekom AG; Cingular AWS LLC Cingular Wireless, AT&T, $500 million
BellSouth CellCo Partnership Verizon Wireless, $383.3 million
Verizon Communications,
Vodafone Group Plc; Cricket Licensee Inc. Leap Wireless; $255 million
MetroPCS AWS LLC MetroPCS $200 million Dolan Family Holdings Charles Dolan, chairman $150 million
of Cablevision Systems AWS Wireless Inc. Allen Salmasi, NextWave $142.8 million
Wireless Chairman, CEO Lynch AWS Corp. Mario Gabelli $1.5 million
SOURCE: FCC filings.
