What's News?: U.S. Spectrum Auction- August 2006

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This aDRD (Announcement Data Rich Deliverable) is part of the Business subscription and falls within the Wireless Equipment market.  This announcement discusses the summer 2006 Spectrum auction and the delayed announcement made by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday 19-May-2006. This is the decades most anticipated spectrum auction as Advanced Wireless Services (AWS-1) could generate nearly $15 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Compass Intelligence defines wireless equipment as wireless devices, including handsets, smartphones, Blackberry devices and connection cards. Wireless voice services include expenditures on dial tone related services, where voice calls are delivered over a wireless network.  This category includes per-minute charges, base charges in flat-rate plans and for-fee, value-added services related to wireless voice transport, i.e., voice-activated dialing, voicemail, call forwarding, call waiting, and caller ID. Size of business includes SOHO (1-4 employees), Small Business (5-99 employees), Mid-Sized Business (100-999 employees), and Enterprise Business (Over 1000 employees).  The Expert Guide for this deliverable is Stephanie Atkinson. Forecasts are from 2005 through 2010 and include annual growth rate, as well as percentage of total market.
Sources: Compass Intelligence’s segment and market forecasts, which include business expenditures, market demographics, and usage and adoption statistics are built using multiple sources, including proprietary Compass Intelligence research. These sources include, but are not limited to, secondary research, government data and statistics (e.g. Department of Commerce, Federal Communication Commission, Bureau of Labor Statistics and US Census Bureau), primary research, vendor-based research and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers, where relevant. Compass Intelligence selects data sources to provide greatest degree of perspective on each market or segment, in addition to the highest level of data accuracy, stability, and consistency over time. Skip to top