FCC announces winners in $81bn 5G spectrum auction. Congrats to Verizon, which must cough up $45.4bn

AT&T and T-Mobile also have to write enormous cheques before March 24

Radio spectrum doesn't come cheap. Just ask America's communications regulator, the FCC, which just announced the winning bidders in its long-awaited auction of C-band spectrum, which hauled in a cool $81bn*....