The FCC should ’stand up to pressure’ and adopt spectrum auction ...
The FCC should “stand up to pressure” and adopt spectrum auction rules keeping bidder identities secret and barring big wireless carriers from teaming up with designated entities to get bidding credits, consumer groups said. A proposal to make such…
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changes in this summer’s Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) auction is on the FCC’s open agenda meeting Wed. In an April 5 letter to FCC Chmn. Martin, groups said leaving the auction rules as-is could cost the U.S. $10 billion in lost revenue. “CEOs of major wireless companies have lobbied the FCC nonstop to ignore the evidence and do nothing,” said an attorney for the National Hispanic Media Coalition. Other signers included the Media Access Project, Common Cause, the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Free Press, the New America Foundation and US PIRG.