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June 16th, 2008Spectrum Auction: Round 64 Mom, Dad, are we there yet?

Posted by Editor in spectrum

Someone wake us up when we’re ready to land? At about 10 Million dollars an hour (rounds now start on the hour, 8 a day) the spectrum auction keeps spiraling up into the heavens. And yet not much is actually happening as the bid increments are getting smaller at this stage. ‘A’ block though has some entertaining action. Rogers has shown they are pretty committed to keeping the whole of A block. Which has pretty much everyone (even Bell getting in on the action) in playing sport with them by taking pot shots at the block and forcing Rogers to spend more and more each round to buy it’s licenses back. Of anyone, Rogers looks to be carrying the most of the steadily growing total revenues. Which now risen to a lofty 3.7 Billion.

Quebecor and Globalive are still finding time to squabble over central Canadian licenses. You’d think by this point they’d have realized they have greater common enemies than each other. You might wonder why they don’t just call each other up and sort things out on the side. Maybe because that sort of behaviour is against the auction rules. Or maybe they just couldn’t afford the roaming minutes.

Even txt messages you know, are getting more expensive all the time.

  • Jeff

    Just wondering where you're getting the latest figures from.

  • http://www.billgiven.ca Bill Given

    Ok, look at the 349's… what is Bragg doing? They've been bidding aggressively on A, E & F since round 44. Each time one of the big three comes in to defend their turf Bragg follows up in the next round with a higher bid. Prices for A & F have increased by over a million dollars each because of this hot action.

    Are they using this same strategy anywhere else?

  • http://wirelessnorth.ca WirelessNorth

    That's true! Bragg has been aggressively messing with “Roger's” A block in the east – and northern alberta.

  • http://wirelessnorth.ca WirelessNorth

    You can find the official pages here: http://agora.ic.gc.ca/AuctionGCLF_BTS/mainmenu.cfm

  • Jeff

    Just wondering where you're getting the latest figures from.

  • http://www.billgiven.ca Bill Given

    Ok, look at the 349's… what is Bragg doing? They've been bidding aggressively on A, E & F since round 44. Each time one of the big three comes in to defend their turf Bragg follows up in the next round with a higher bid. Prices for A & F have increased by over a million dollars each because of this hot action.

    Are they using this same strategy anywhere else?

  • http://wirelessnorth.ca WirelessNorth

    That's true! Bragg has been aggressively messing with “Roger's” A block in the east – and northern alberta.

  • http://wirelessnorth.ca WirelessNorth

    You can find the official pages here: http://agora.ic.gc.ca/AuctionGCLF_BTS/mainmenu.cfm

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