{"id":233,"date":"2014-03-28T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2014-03-28T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T21:55:10","slug":"aws-3-auction-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/aws-3-auction-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS-3 Auction Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I published this via twitter a week or two ago, and now I&#8217;ve cleaned it up and am publishing it here. In general terms, I expect Verizon, AT&amp;T and T-Mobile to each own about 40-50MHz in the AWS-1\/3 combined spectrum &#8220;superband&#8221; after the auction closes. This, after some deals between the three of them to reorganize the spectrum so its contiguous, will allow each of them to deliver end-user speeds of 15-25Mbps in areas of good coverage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/pub?key=0Aqo4Xg7UK236dHBqa3Q2OWVNY1hDUk5JbUpIWjl0YUE&amp;single=true&amp;gid=3&amp;output=html\" height=\"400\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 3\/31\/2014: Updated to reflect FCC&#8217;s band plan for AWS-3, also tweaked the results slightly to accommodate the new band plan]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Combined with lower band 600 and 700 MHz spectrum, along with refarming of PCS 1900MHz spectrum over the next 5 years, LTE coverage should be greatly improved in terms of speed and capacity.<\/p>\n<p>What is left to determine is how end-user usage patterns will change when they have access to higher speeds &#8211; will they need to move up from a 10GB bucket to a 15GB bucket for their family of four lines, or will users keep their habits in check and the carriers are left with an overbuilt network because people aren&#8217;t streaming video for fear of data overages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I published this via twitter a week or two ago, and now I&#8217;ve cleaned it up and am publishing it here. In general terms, I expect Verizon, AT&amp;T and T-Mobile to each own about 40-50MHz in the AWS-1\/3 combined spectrum &#8220;superband&#8221; after the auction closes. This, after some deals between the three of them to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/aws-3-auction-predictions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AWS-3 Auction Predictions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-path-forward"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25yC9-3L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}