FCC's latest mid-band auction ends with T-Mobile expected to be the big winner

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T-Mobile is expected to be named soon as the winner of Auction 108 which put up some more mid-band 5G spectrum up for bid.

coveted leading to its $26 billion purchase of Sprint. The latter had a hoard of 2.5GHz spectrum that turned out to be perfect for 5G. The signals travel longer distances than mm Wave making them more accessible to 5G compatible handsets. While not as fast as mmWave signals, they do deliver download data speeds up to 10 times faster than low-band 5G.

Sasha Javid, COO of BitPath and a former chief data officer with the FCC said,"It is also likely true that no nationwide bidders other than T-Mobile were participating in any meaningful way in this auction." T-Mobile did have a bidding advantage since the FCC did not require the company to reveal its existing lease deals on its 2.5GHz holdings. That info was an important piece of information to know and only the wireless firm had that data.

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