A little over a week ago, T-Mobile announced that they were purchasing additional 600MHz spectrum from Columbia Capital. Immediately, we began receiving phone calls to determine which markets T-Mobile would be increasing their 600MHz spectrum holdings. Unfortunately, the FCC application for this transaction has not be filed so our best view into these licenses is found by finding the licenses that T-Mobile is currently leasing from Columbia Capital.
Looking first at the Spectrum Grid in our Web Spectrum Viewer, we can see the markets and the channels that Columbia Capital controls. Our Spectrum Grid can display 3 types of spectrum ownership data: 1) The license owner (FCC), 2) The current operator (Current), or 3) The Future Owner. In this example we want to find the spectrum that Columbia Capital owns, so we are choosing FCC in the filters.
In this view, we can see that Columbia Capital (COL) controls 600MHz spectrum in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia. Clicking on any of the COL cells provides detailed information for that spectrum block in the licensee, call sign, lessee, and lease ID.
From this image we can see that one of the Columbia Capital licensee names is Channel 51 License Co. The other licensee name is LB License Co.
The easiest way to find T-Mobile's 600MHz leases is to utilize the Transactions module. In the image below, you can see the filters we applied to our Transactions database to get an output of T-Mobile's 600MHz leases with Channel 51. These are the licenses that will likely be included in the first half of the Columbia Capital transaction. This transaction query can be exported to Excel and is available for download at the link below.
In the image below, you can see the filters we applied to our Transactions database to get an output of T-Mobile's 600MHz leases with LB License Co. These are the licenses that will likely be included in the second half of the Columbia Capital transaction. This transaction query can be exported to Excel and is available for download at the link below.
