{"id":540,"date":"2008-06-02T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2017-01-25T09:18:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T14:18:57","slug":"aws-auction-who-is-still-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"AWS auction: who is still on board?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gc.ca\/images\/wmms.gif\" alt=\"Canada\" border=\"0\" \/>The AWS spectrum auction has already <a href=\"http:\/\/agora.ic.gc.ca\/AuctionGCLF\/roundResultsSummary.cfm\">generated<\/a> $1.5B in bids for the federal treasury. The auction will be stepping up the pace later this week: after round 13 (the first round on June 2), bid increments will be 10% (instead of the current 15%). In addition, the auction will be moving to <a href=\"http:\/\/agora.ic.gc.ca\/AuctionGCLF\/scheduleCurrent.cfm\">5 rounds per day<\/a> as of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>From the original pack of 30 applicants, 3 didn&#8217;t make it past the qualifying list. A number of bidders withdrew prior to the auction commencing. Some others were no shows when the bidding got underway. Still <a href=\"http:\/\/agora.ic.gc.ca\/AuctionGCLF\/bidderRoundData.cfm\">others<\/a> have seen partial or dramatic erosion in their eligibility points.<\/p>\n<p>Very interesting to look at where people are bidding and perhaps more importantly, where they are not bidding.<\/p>\n<p>I referred to bidding early last week as the <a href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=543\">preliminary round<\/a>. We are starting to move toward the end of regular season play this week. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ic.gc.ca\/epic\/site\/smt-gst.nsf\/en\/sf08862e.html#sect63\">play-offs<\/a> are still to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AWS spectrum auction has already generated $1.5B in bids for the federal treasury. The auction will be stepping up the pace later this week: after round 13 (the first round on June 2), bid increments will be 10% (instead of the current 15%). In addition, the auction will be moving to 5 rounds per &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=540\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AWS auction: who is still on board?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AWS auction: who is still on board? &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The AWS spectrum auction has already generated $1.5B in bids for the federal treasury. 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