Weekly Spectrum Transaction Summary - November 27, 2020 January 27, 2021 14:30

In this week's FCC transactions we finally see the applications for Verizon's acquisition of Bluegrass Cellular, which was announced October 19. 2020.  Verizon is receiving a total of 52 licenses including licenses in the 600MHz, 700MHz, Cellular, PCS, 24GHz, and 28GHz frequency bands.  It will be interesting to see if Verizon will end up selling the 600MHz, 700MHz, and 24GHz licenses which are all frequency blocks they have avoided.  The 700MHz licenses are the lower B and C channels which are typically deployed by USCellular and AT&T.  Silver Star Telephone also filed to acquire 600MHz spectrum in two Idaho and two Wyoming counties from Gold Spectrum.  Central Texas Communication filed to acquire an EBS license in Central Texas from Lohn Independent School District.  Central Texas currently leases this callsign.  Also, this week, T-Mobile filed new EBS lease applications for 2 licenses in North Carolina, 1 license in Washington, and 1 license in Texas.  T-Mobile currently leases each of these licenses.  In the last application, Unified Communications filed to re-leased an EBS license near Houston from Somerville Independent School District.