Paul Allen to Bid on Upcoming U.S. Wireless Airwave Auction
December 19, 2007 11:06 AM | Microsoft | Comments (0)
| Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has applied to bid in an upcoming U.S. auction of the wireless airwaves. Paul Allen applied via a venture called Vulcan Spectrum. He is listed with the group who filed to bid in the Federal Communications Commission auction of 700MHz spectrum, which is scheduled to begin on January 24, 2008. Paul Allen heads an investment company called Vulcan Capital and is the majority shareholder in U.S. cable operator Charter Communications. Paul Allen and Vulcan Spectrum were on a list of various potential bidders who filed applications ahead of a December 3 FCC deadline. The auction applicants include major companies such as Google, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone and Qualcomm. Last July Google made headlines by announcing it intended to participate in the upcoming auction of wireless spectrum. Google vowed to spend $4.6 billion to acquire the wireless spectrum. |  |
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