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While the overall deal is salted to go through soon, Rogers will be prevented from exercising its spectrum purchasing option until 2014. The reason for this is that Shaw's $189 million worth of spectrum, acquired during the 2008 AWS spectrum auction, is subject to set-aside limitations aimed at preserving bands of spectrum for new market entrants.
In 2008, Shaw entered the AWS spectrum auction with the intention of possibly becoming a wireless phone provider. The auction ended July 2008, giving Shaw Communications enough spectrum to build a wireless network in its home provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. [17]
OTTAWA – Five consumer and public advocacy groups have asked the Minister of Industry to take action to prohibit Rogers Communications Inc. from acquiring spectrum from Shaw Communications Inc., calling the companies’ recently proposed deal “contrary to the original AWS auction rules of the set-aside” and contrary to “your Ministry’s clear policy to preserve that spectrum for new ...
Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) is a wireless telecommunications spectrum band used for mobile voice and data services, video, and messaging. AWS is used in the United States, Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela. It replaces some of the spectrum formerly allocated to ...
Jan 14, 2013 · Rogers said Monday the $700-million agreement with Shaw is to secure an option to purchase the Calgary company's AWS spectrum holdings in 2014 and to acquire Shaw's cable system in Hamilton, Ont.
Feb 1, 2015 · AT&T’s win in this auction is notable because in addition to the nearly $20 billion spent in the AWS-3 auction, the carrier just completed its acquisition of Iusacell in Mexico for $2.5 billion, is set to buy Mexico’s former Nextel carrier for $1.8 billion, and then there is the approximately $50 billion AT&T plans to spend to buy DirecTV. In short, the company is putting a lot on its ...
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Feb 2, 2015 · With all the talk of how the proceeds of this auction far surpassed estimates, how AT&T spent the most amount of money for the biggest blocks of spectrum, and how one entity or another secured a certain number of licenses and a certain number of POPs, sometimes you just want to see how it all looks on a map. Analysts at Credit Suisse and Wiley Rein did just that, and the lay of the land is ...
