Congress has passed a bill that would enable T-Mobile US and other winners in the most recent auction of 2.5 GHz licenses to take ownership of spectrum licenses that were acquired during a 2022 auction but have been in processing limbo as a result of the expiration of the FCC’s spectrum auction authority.
The Federal Communications Commission’s statutory authority to auction licenses expired in early March 2023. As a result, the FCC stopped all auction-related activity—including processing the transfer of licenses which had already been auctioned and paid for as part of the 2.5 GHz auction, which wrapped up in the fall of 2022.
