The FCC released the list of all those who submitted applications to bid on the Open Spectrum. Of the 266 applicants, only 96 were accepted – one of them not surprisingly being Google. What is surprising though is that at least two major cellular companies had their bids sent back as ‘incomplete’: AT&T and Verizon. Though both will have the opportunity to complete the application and resubmit it, it seems a bit odd that the two companies perhaps the most well-versed in wireless communications get a big fat ‘I’ on their report card.

Also of note is that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been accepted as a bidder with his Vulcan Spectrum LLC group – and oil giant Chevron appears to be making a play for the spectrum as well (gas-powered phones?).

The rest of the list seem to be the standard mix of global and localized telecom companies and some investment groups – Vodafone, Qualcomm, Alltel, etc.

Bidding begins on January 24th, but could take a while.

[UPDATE]: According to TechCrunch the list of incompletes includes even more wireless companies: Alltell, Cox Wireless, Frontier Wireless, and Qualcomm. It’s hard to believe all of these wireless companies would be the ones getting incompletes. Perhaps they none wanted to full disclose their intentions if they won?