You're right that Aloha paid $43.3 million for their first 77 licenses in the auction. They then went on to buy out Cavalier and DataCom:
…In a related development, on February 1, 2005, Aloha Partners LP announced that it will purchase Cavalier Group LLC and DataCom Wireless LLC, respectively the second and third largest owners of 700 MHz spectrum in the US. Aloha Partners now has spectrum sufficient for a (mostly) nationwide network, including spectrum in the top ten urban markets and "84% of the top forty urban markets". (Steve Stroh, as quoted at http://www.dailywireless.org/2005/02/25/the-700-mhz-club/) Cavalier bought their markets for around $10 million. DataCom bought theirs for about $5 million. The $2.5 billion AT&T paid to cover 196 million people works out to $12.76 per person. Compare this to the average paid per person in Auction 44 - about $0.55! <http://hightechmagazine.com/ManageArticle.asp?C=100&A=5953> On 10/9/07, Joshua Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What a considerable profit considering they paid 43.3 million for it in > 2002. > > Best, -- Dylan Oliver Primaverity, LLC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Join us at the WISPA Reception at 6:30 PM on October the 16th 2007 at ISPCON ** ** ISPCON Fall 2007 - October 16-18 - San Jose, CA www.ispcon.com ** ** THE INTERNET INDUSTRY EVENT ** ** FREE Exhibits and Events Pass available until August 31 ** ** Use Customer Code WSEMF7 when you register online at http://www.ispcon.com/register.php ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
