Spectrum Bridge Inc. | News & Events

New Company Launches Online Spectrum Exchange (March 2010) New venture capital-funded company is launching a spectrum exchange — similar to a stock exchange — that will allow companies in need of spectrum to find available frequencies to lease through the FCC’s secondary spectrum access guidelines.	Download 186.64 KB
FiberTower brokering 39 GHz spectrum (April 2009) Spectrum Bridge announced FiberTower has listed its 39 GHz portfolio of nationwide area millimeter-wave spectrum on SpecEx, an online spectrum broker. The move comes just before the federal government will issue $7.2 billion in loans to bring broadband to underserved areas.	Download 249.97 KB
TV white spaces could be a boon to rural areas (March 2009) There's enough of this 2.5-GHz spectrum not only to cover nearly every square inch of the state but also to shower 5.6 million residents with multichannel, wireless broadband voice, video and data services.	Download 346.27 KB
Wireless Industry`s First Private Spectrum Auction to Be Hosted by Spectrum Bridge (March 2009) The first online spectrum auction conducted by a private enterprise; Two highly desirable sets of licenses will be auctioned. First are ultra high frequency (UHF) Part 22 spectrum licenses, covering Clark County, NV, which includes metro Las Vegas. The second set consists of very high frequency (VHF) spectrum licenses covering the state of Florida.	Download 302.32 KB
State's plan to reprogram huge spectrum asset faces challenges (January 2009) There's enough of this 2.5-GHz spectrum not only to cover nearly every square inch of the state but also to shower 5.6 million residents with multichannel, wireless broadband voice, video and data services.	Download 190.13 KB
Company to Create Airwaves Exchange (September 2008) Vibrant financial markets exist for trading everything from bushels of corn to barrels of oil. Now a new company is hoping to do the same for the nation's airwaves, with an online trading exchange for radio spectrum. The company, Spectrum Bridge Inc., will match buyers and sellers of spectrum licenses used for wireless communications.	Download 286.02 KB
Got Spectrum (September 2008) The Federal Communications Commission is permitting spectrum owners to sublicense their spectrum and facilitate an open market for spectrum brokering. This will help alleviate spectrum shortages by making unused or underutilized spectrum held by existing licensees more readily available to other users and uses and thereby spur development of new, spectrum-efficient technologies.	Download 300.80 KB
Meet the eBay of Wireless Spectrum. (September 2008) "This is an interesting model to finally put a lot of people [virtually] into the same room,’” says Jeff Thompson, CEO of TowerStream.	Download 255.51 KB
US Startup Launches Online Airwaves Market (September 2008) Spectrum trading - the ability for licence holders to sell on, or sub let, their frequencies - has been broadly endorsed by both the FCC and Ofcom, so now a US company has done the obvious thing and set up a market for the buying and selling of radio frequencies.	Download 272.47 KB
Start-up looks to jump start secondary spectrum market (March 2008) A start-up is building what it calls the world's first online, real-time market for wireless spectrum. Spectrum Bridge officially came out of stealth mode today, announcing the launch of its new business plan, which aims to simplify and enable the market for secondary spectrum access.	Download 287.96 KB