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Spectrum position review checklist
Ten questions to answer before you defend a spectrum bid to your board, with a worked example built entirely from public auction data and no client material anywhere.
How to use it
- Answer each question with a number and its source, not an adjective
- Where you cannot get a per-market comparable, say so. Do not average a national figure in its place
- Write the walk-away price first, then test everything against it
- Take the completed sheet into the board meeting as the working behind the recommendation
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The checklist
Spreadsheet and one-page document. No sign-up. We invite an email so we can send corrections and updates. We never require it (ADR-0009).
Download the templateWorked example: CBRS, from public data
The worked example runs the checklist against a real position: what CBRS priority licences cleared at, per market rather than nationally. Every figure is reproducible in the spectrum cost tool, which opens each number’s receipt.
Recommendations
- Anchor on the median for anything outside a top-25 metro; the national average overstates it by roughly six times
- Price depth against the service you are selling, not the maximum the band allows
- Name the walk-away number and what would have to change to move it
We need a spectrum position before the auction
The decision this checklist serves, worked end to end
Spectrum & capacity strategy
When you want the position built with you rather than only the checklist
The worked example is public auction data, reproducible line by line.