Ergen Rattles TV Industry With $50 Billion Binge on Bandwidth

AT&T is already calling foul that Dish inflated the price of the auction. Of course AT&T would love it if there was less competition. Dish needs to team up with T-Mobile or Sprint to get their spectrum in use before all the deadlines.
 
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My vote is for Dish and Google to go into a joint wireless venture. I read a report that Google was considering getting into that area. Google money could build out the spectrum for use quickly.
 
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This is the one thing I don't understand. Dish bid the price up. That means Dish had to pay more for the bandwidth. How exactly is the Government supposed to be upset by that? Dish isn't a monopoly in the spectrum and cell service industry, so what could the Gov. object to here?
 
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This is the one thing I don't understand. Dish bid the price up. That means Dish had to pay more for the bandwidth. How exactly is the Government supposed to be upset by that? Dish isn't a monopoly in the spectrum and cell service industry, so what could the Gov. object to here?
By bidding up the price they also increase the value of their massive pre-existing spectrum.
 
This is the one thing I don't understand. Dish bid the price up. That means Dish had to pay more for the bandwidth. How exactly is the Government supposed to be upset by that? Dish isn't a monopoly in the spectrum and cell service industry, so what could the Gov. object to here?
They are bidding the price up for spectrum they had no intention of buying as well. Forcing other companies to pay more, and leaving dish more room to get the spectrum they want. Which is how I understood bidding worked....
 
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They are bidding the price up for spectrum they had no intention of buying as well. Forcing other companies to pay more, and leaving dish more room to get the spectrum they want. Which is how I understood bidding worked....
Thanks. That explains it well.
 
Thanks. That explains it well.
Seriously, anyone who really wants to stop this, just needs to put themselves out of business. Don't like it? Then become more powerful and play the game back to them. You are not forced to bid, so if the price is to high for you, LEAVE it alone. Fact of the matter is that if they left Dish with the "over inflated" price, and not bid back, then Dish would have had to pay the over inflated price. Its like "Storage Wars - Billionaires". Every single time I hear people bitch about this auction, it just reminds me of a higher stake episode of that show. Getting some real entertainment out it, but dang... I had to stop watching that show too.
 
They are bidding the price up for spectrum they had no intention of buying as well. Forcing other companies to pay more, and leaving dish more room to get the spectrum they want. Which is how I understood bidding worked....

Or it was a way to be sure they got the spectrum they wanted. AT&T and VZ have a long history of buying up everything they can get their hands on to hold. Dish driving up the price could make it too expensive to buy the entire market between the two of them. VZ did not seem to fall into the trap, they only bid on what they wanted. This is probably the first auction where AT&T met its match and could not simply buy all it could to keep it out of the hands of others.
 
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