Spectrum Pricing January 2024
Counting only those auctions and assignments for which GSA has fee data, 2021 saw spectrum auctions and assignments reach a total of $140.1 billion, a huge increase on the 2020 value of $37.7 billion. A total of $26.6 billion was allocated in 2022, with the auction in India accounting for a large proportion of this. In 2023, a total of $3.82 billion worth of spectrum was auctioned and assigned, a large decrease from the past two years.
Pricing data supplied in this document only includes completed auctions for which GSA has all the prerequisite data to calculate a price per MHz of bandwidth per population for an individual band. To clarify, data is not included where GSA does not have information about price, bandwidth or population (this can be the case for regional assignments) or only has total information for multiple bands auctioned together.
Findings from this update include:
- The recent average price of C-band spectrum is $0.108/MHz/pop, significantly lower than the record-high of $0.875/MHz/pop seen in the US auction of 3.7 GHz to 3.98 GHz spectrum in 2021.
- Since the last update, Poland’s 3.5 GHz auction raised $490 million and had a price of $0.029/MHz/pop.
- Canada recently concluded a C-band allocation in the 3.8 GHz frequency range, raising an impressive $1.6 billion.
- Only three countries (Hungary, Estonia and Israel) licensed millimetre-wave spectrum in 2023.
- Three countries held auctions or assignments of spectrum at 700 MHz in 2023: Armenia, French Guiana and Georgia.
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Spectrum Pricing January 2024
