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Northpoint continued to oppose auction for using satellite spectr...

Northpoint continued to oppose auction for using satellite spectrum for proposed terrestrial service. Competitor MDS and other wireless companies asked FCC to auction spectrum, but Northpoint said that would destroy “incentives for entrepreneurs and inventors to develop innovative technologies…

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to create new bandwidth in already licensed spectrum.” It said it was only company “qualified” for terrestrial license. “In the absence of mutually exclusive applications, there is no rationale for an auction.”