Summary
Cellular Rural Service Areas Auction Closes; Winning Bidders Announced
In the Matter of Motion of Ranger Cellular and Miller Communications, Inc. for a Stay of the Cellular rural Service Areas Auction No. 45
Additional Qualified Bidder for the Auction of Licenses for Cellular Rural Service Areas
Fact Sheet
Auction 45 began on 5/29/2002 and closed on 6/4/2002.
RSA 332 - Polk, AR Block A
RSA 582 - Barnes, ND Block A
RSA 727 - Ceiba, PR Block A
Mobile: 824 - 835 MHz, 845 - 846.5 MHz
Base: 869 - 880 MHz, 890 - 891.5 MHz
25 MHz per license
- Key Dates
- Licenses Offered
- Permissible Operations
- License Period & Construction Requirements
- Bidding Credits
- Tribal Land Credits
- Incumbents
- Licensing Rules
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Bidding credits are available to entrepreneurs, small businesses, and very small businesses or consortia thereof, (as defined in 47 C.F.R. § 22.229). A bidding credit represents the amount by which a bidder's winning bids are discounted. The size of the bidding credit depends on the average annual gross revenues for the preceding three years of the bidder, its affiliates, its controlling interests, and the affiliates of its controlling interests:
- An entrepreneur with attributed average annual gross revenues of not more than $40 million for the preceding three years receives a 15 percent discount on its winning bids for cellular RSA licenses
- A small business with attributed average annual gross revenues of not more than $15 million for the preceding three years receives a 25 percent discount on its winning bids for cellular RSA licenses
- A very small business with attributed average annual gross revenues of not more than $3 million for the preceding three years receives a 35 percent discount on its winning bids for cellular RSA licenses
- A cellular RSA licensee that holds a controlling interest in a license operating on one cellular channel block, is limited on the amount of interest they may hold in a license for the other channel block in an overlapping cellular geographic service area (CGSA). (47 C.F.R. § 22.942).
- A cellular RSA licensee operating transmitters within 72 kilometers (45 miles) of the U.S. - Canadian border must coordinate with the adjacent Canadian licensee to eliminate any harmful interference. (See 47 C.F.R. § 22.955).
- Partitioning and/or disaggregation is permitted. (See 47 C.F.R. § 22.948).
Cellular Rural Service Areas Auction Closes; Winning Bidders Announced
Additional Qualified Bidder for the Auction of Licenses for Cellular Rural Service Areas
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