Verizon spends more for early C-band access

Verizon has pledged to spend an additional US$170 million for early access to some of the C-band frequencies it acquired last year.
That’s no small sum of money but, given that the US telco was by far the biggest spender in the much-hyped $94 billion C-band auction with a bill of almost $53 billion, this latest outlay is something of a drop in the ocean.
That said, the fact that Verizon is willing to add so many tens of millions to its spend serves to further demonstrate how important the