The FCC should ‘embrace’ the Frontline proposal and seek public c...
The FCC should “embrace” the Frontline proposal and seek public comment on it, the Media Access Project said in a Tues. ex parte filing in the 9th NPRM docket. Media Access Project filed on behalf of Consumers Union, Consumer…
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Federation of America, Free Press, New America Foundation and Public Knowledge, calling themselves the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition. The Frontline proposal would create a “national wholesale provider of… spectrum for competing wireless providers,” increasing competition, PISC said, adding that it also would improve “maximum competitive entry” in broadband wireless among both public safety entrants and women and minority-owned businesses. The coalition sought to change other auction norms, as well. The summer 2006 AWS auction “demonstrated that continuing to hold open, ascending auctions to distribute virtually unregulated licenses merely serves to enhance the stranglehold of incumbents,” the filing said, citing study results claiming to show that incumbents actively blocked “potentially disruptive” competitors from obtaining spectrum. The coalition also urged the Commission to take up the proposed Band Optimization Plan, and allow anonymous and package bidding.