updating the state of its 5G build-out following the record breaking $81 billion C-band auction held by the FCC. and AT&T together spent $68 billion (Verizon shelled out $45 billion of that total) to add mid-range spectrum needed to improve their 5G signals. The FCC auctioned off spectrum in the 3.7GHz-3.98GHz range. T-Mobile, which was way ahead of the pack thanks to the ton of 2.5GHz spectrum it received in the acquisition of Sprint (c'mon now, you didn't think that T-Mobile bought Sprint to take over Sprint's wireless business, did you?), only laid out $9 billion in the auction. That's ...