The FCC Wireless Bureau confirmed that Dish Network...

The FCC Wireless Bureau confirmed that Dish Network bought all 176 licenses sold in the H-block auction (http://fcc.us/1dhJjHU), which closed last week (CD Feb 28 p3). Dish paid a total of $1.564 billion, bidding through a subsidiary, American H Block Wireless. Dish paid a low of $10,000 for the American Samoa licenses and a high of $216.955 million for the license covering New York City and several adjoining areas. Dish had competition for some of the licenses, though none of the major wireless carriers were players. The most competition came from bidder CTM Spectrum, which made two separate bids for the New York license, before Dish made the final winning bid in round 24, FCC records show. CTM made a run on other major licenses as well, including those covering the Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco markets, but in each case its bid was trumped by Dish. CTM was backed by various venture capitalists firms and its primary contact is listed on an FCC form as Monish Kundra, a partner at Columbia Capital.