PUBLIC NOTICE
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DA 18-386
April 17, 2018
TECHNICAL GUIDES ON PROPOSED BIDDING PROCEDURES 
FOR AUCTION 102 (24 GHz)
AU Docket No. 18-85
The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) today makes available guides that provide 
technical and mathematical detail regarding the proposed bidding and assignment procedures for Auction 
102 (24 GHz).  These guides provide examples and serve as supplements to the bidding and bid 
processing procedures for the clock and assignment phases as proposed by the Commission in the 
Auctions 101 and 102 Comment Public Notice.
1
  The guides, which are entitled Auction 102 Clock Phase 
Technical Guide and Auction 102 Assignment Phase Technical Guide, respectively, are available on the 
Commission’s Auction 101 and 102 website (www.fcc.gov/auction/101-102), where they will remain 
available and accessible for reference.  Technical and mathematical detail regarding the procedures for 
Auction 101 (28 GHz) is contained in Attachment B to the Auctions 101 and 102 Comment Public 
Notice.
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For further information concerning the technical guides, email auction101-102@fcc.gov or 
contact the FCC Auctions Hotline at (717) 338-2868.  For further information concerning this proceeding, 
contact the offices listed below:
Upper Microwave Flexible Use Service (UMFUS) questions: 
Nancy Zaczek (legal) or Janet Young (technical), at (202) 418-2487 
Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau: 
Erik Beith or Kathryn Hinton, at (202) 418-0660
– FCC –
1
 See Auctions of Upper Microwave Flexible Use Licenses for Next-Generation Wireless Services; Comment Sought 
on Competitive Bidding Procedures for Auctions 101 (28 GHz) and 102 (24 GHz); Bidding in Auction 101 
Scheduled to Begin November 14, 2018, Public Notice, FCC 18-43 at 24-34, paras. 80-133 (Apr. 17, 2018) 
(Auctions 101 and 102 Comment Public Notice or Public Notice).  The Commission directed the Bureau to prepare 
and release, concurrent with the Public Notice, technical guides that provide the mathematical details of the 
proposed auction design and algorithms for the clock and assignment phases of Auction 102.  Id. at 24, para. 80.
2
 Auctions 101 and 102 Comment Public Notice, Attachment B.