Weekly Spectrum Transaction Summary - March 22, 2019

In this week's FCC transactions Horry Telephone filed to acquire three 600MHz licenses in North and South Carolina from Farmers Telephone.  USCellular also filed to acquire three AWS-1 licenses in Maine and Tennessee from their Barat Wireless and Carroll Wireless partners.  All of Barat and Carroll Wireless' licenses are already reflected as USCellular controlled in our databases so this transaction will only be changing the licensee name, not the control.  The final set of transactions, provide W.A.T.C.H. TV with leased access to the 700MHz guard band in 7 Indiana counties.  W.A.T.C.H. TV stated in their application that they will use this 1x1MHz channel to provide rural internet service.  W.A.T.C.H. TV previously offered wireless cable television service and broadband services to parts of Ohio and Indiana with EBS/BRS channels that were not transitioned to the new bandplan.  Many of the channels they were using for wireless cable have transitioned to Sprint control over the last year.