Tool · XLSX · version 1.0
What spectrum is worth: a comparables model
The eight public benchmarks as a workbook you can drive: enter a band, a bandwidth and a population, and it returns the range the comparables support.
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Who it is for
Anyone arriving at a number before an auction or a transaction: carriers, investors, corporate development.
What is in it
- Eight benchmarks in dollars per MHz-POP, each with the arithmetic, the source, the basis and the caveat that qualifies it
- A model that takes your band, bandwidth and population and returns a range from the comparables that apply
- The Auction 105 county detail: the median, the weighted average, and the eight counties that show why a national average misleads for five markets in six
- A sanity check against a number you already have in mind
What it will not do
It does not value low band, because there is no clean US low-band benchmark in the public record; selecting low band returns the reason rather than a figure.
Sources
FCC auction results files for Auctions 105, 107, 108, 110 and 113; US Census Bureau 2024 vintage county estimates; EchoStar Forms 8-K. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
The analysis behind it
Run it in the browser
The same method is in the framework library as a workbench that asks its questions, works out the result and exports it, with a worked example: Spectrum valuation by comparables.
If you use this and find an error, tell us at hello@blueprysm.com and we will correct it and say what changed. Last updated 29 September 2026.
Start with a diagnosis
Tell us what you are trying to decide. We reply in writing within two working days, with how we would approach it, what it would take and what it would cost.