DA 01-1792

July 26, 2001

**AUCTION OF LICENSES FOR 747-762 AND 777-792 MHz BANDS**

**POSTING OF DATA FROM TEST AUCTIONS CONDUCTED DURING DEVELOPMENT OF
PACKAGE BIDDING AUCTION SYSTEM**

**Report No. AUC-01-31-C (Auction No. 31)**

The Auctions and Industry Analysis Division of the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau has posted to its website
([http://www.fcc.gov/wtb/auctions/700/data/]{.underline}) data files
from various test auctions conducted during the development of its new
simultaneous multiple-round auction system with package bidding. The
auctions were held at different times in order to test the evolving
system's rules, software, and processing capabilities. No spectrum was
actually sold in these auctions.

The files are provided for the benefit of researchers interested in the
package bidding auction mechanism. The Auctions and Industry Analysis
Division makes no claims of accuracy, completeness, or consistency.
While basic background conditions are provided for each auction group,
no attempt has been made to standardize either the content or the format
of the files. The formats used in these test files *do not* represent
the formats that will be used during actual FCC spectrum auctions using
the package bidding system.

There are five groups of files from the following tests:

(1) AZ1: An auction conducted August 17 and 18, 2000, at the University
    of Arizona under an FCC contract with Cybernetics, Inc. Bidders were
    graduate students who received payments for discovering program
    defects and for winning licenses or packages at less than an
    assigned valuation for those licenses or packages (with payments
    being proportional to the difference between the selling price and
    the valuation).

(2) AZ2: A series of five auctions conducted December 4-8, 2000, again
    at the University of Arizona through Cybernetics, Inc. Bidders were
    graduate students and faced incentives as in AZ1.

(3) HS: A group of three auctions conducted at St. Anselm's Abbey High
    School in Washington, DC, on January 20 and February 10, 2001.
    Bidders were upper level high school students. In addition to the
    incentives used in AZ1 and AZ2, bidders received a flat fee for
    winning a package or license.

(4) Industry: The Industry Test conducted by the FCC for potential
    participants in Auction 31. This test was held January 24-26, 2001.

(5) BidBots: An auction run by Computech, Inc. under contract with the
    FCC on April 30, 2001. This test used programmed robotic bidders
    only.

A folder for each group contains descriptive files as well as an
additional file of actual raw results.

Additional test data may be posted to the web site without further
public notice.

The test auctions above generally followed the auction procedures
adopted for Auction 31, as described in *Auction No. 31 Package Bidding
Procedures Public Notice,* released July 3, 2000*;*[^1] *Auction No. 31
Package Bidding Further Comment Public Notice,* released November 2,
2000*;*[^2] and *Auction No. 31 Package Bidding Further Procedures
Public Notice,* released January 5, 2001.[^3]

Questions about downloading the files should be directed to Jeff Crooks
at <jcrooks@fcc.gov> or (202) 418-2074. Questions about file content
should be directed to Martha Stancill at <mstancil@fcc.gov> or (202)
418-7015.

[^1]: *See* Auction of Licenses in the 747-762 and 777-792 MHz Bands
    Scheduled for September 6, 2000, Procedures Implementing Package
    Bidding for Auction No. 31; Bidder Seminar Scheduled for July 24,
    2000, *Public Notice*, DA 00-1486, 15 FCC Rcd 11526 (2000)
    ("*Auction No. 31 Package Bidding Procedures Public Notice*").

[^2]: *See* Auction of Licenses in the 747-762 and 777-792 MHz Bands
    Scheduled for March 6, 2001, Comment Sought on Modifying the
    Calculation for Determining Minimum Accepted Bids and Changing the
    Provisions Concerning "Last and Best" Bids, *Public Notice*, DA
    00-2404, 15 FCC Rcd. 21424, (2000) ("*Auction No. 31 Package Bidding
    Further Comment Public Notice*").

[^3]: *See* Auction of Licenses in the 747-762 and 777-792 MHz Bands
    Scheduled for March 6, 2001, Modifications to the Calculation for
    Determining Minimum Acceptable Bids and the Provisions Concerning
    "Last and Best Bids" and Other Procedural Issues, Bidder Seminar
    Scheduled for January 23, 2001, and Test of Package Bidding System
    Set for January 24, 25, and 26, 2001, *Public Notice*, DA 01-12,
    (rel. January 5, 2001), 66 Fed. Reg. 7907 (January 26, 2001)
    ("*Auction No. 31 Package Bidding Further Procedures Public
    Notice*").