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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 refuses to value low band. There is no clean US low-band benchmark in the public record, so 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

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.

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