Announcing the 2nd Generation Airwave Portfolio Explorer

By the Airwave Team

Airwave Research is excited to announce two significant additions to our Portfolio Explorer, marking the release of version 2.0. These features are:

Valuation Section: Estimate and visualize the value of any portfolio.
Bulk Call Sign Search: Perform efficient searches by call sign.

Here's a detailed look at how these features empower Airwave users.

Valuation Section

The portfolio explorer unlocks insights for spectrum holdings through multiple modalities:

Map: a heatmap of either spectrum depth or Mhz-Pop nationally. Flexible boundary filters allows you to view markets by any FCC defined boundary. (County, PEA, BEA, etc.)

Metrics: provides key info like number of licenses, Mhz-Pops, and spectrum depth.

Operator Holdings: visualizes ownership of spectrum (based on your query) in each frequency band.

Licenses: offers a tabular view of all licenses returned by your query.

Valuation (new): This new section allows users to estimate the financial value of the spectrum holdings based on values defined in your valuation profile.

Details on the Valuation Section

Chart Visualization: Displays the spectrum's worth in the portfolio, broken down by band.
Side-by-Side Comparison: Shows indexed and non-indexed valuation estimates.
Detailed Breakdown: Provides a block-level breakdown in an alternative tabular view.
Portfolio Value Calculation: Identifies the total built up from line items.

This feature enables workflows that were previously not possible, leveraging valuation profiles discussed in our recent post.

Bulk Call Sign Search

Our company search flexibly allowed search by company “common name” (e.g. Verizon) or search by FCC registered “entity name” (e.g. Cellco Partnership).

We have now expanded the portfolio to be even more flexible by enabling you to perform a bulk call sign search in addition to company search.

We anticipate this feature will be particularly helpful for customers evaluating transactions of their own or other transactions taking place in the industry at large.

Designed to be flexible

Narrowing your search is easy with the portfolio explorer. Once you’ve opened the filter panel, you can narrow by:

Market: filter by specific market areas or regions.
Frequency Band: filter by frequency band. This can be a single band or multiple bands. And you can filter by radio code, wedding cake layer ("Low", "Low-mid", etc.), 3GPP NR bands, 3GPP LTE bands, and more.
Ownership status: filter on whether the license is owned, leased in, or leased out.
Channel Block: filter by channel block (e.g. A, B, C, etc.)

Extraordinary Tooling