A Frontline executive wants to debate Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg...

band are expected this summer. Vice Chairman Reed Hundt of Frontline complained to Communications Daily that Verizon has been attacking his company’s ideas for the spectrum using “surrogates,” not it own executives. Hundt invited Seidenberg, accompanied by a teammate, to pick any two Frontline officials to debate. It is “time for Verizon to show, in factual detail,” its position on 700 MHz, said the former FCC chairman. Hundt admitted his ire at a Wednesday Washington Post op-ed article criticizing Frontline’s 700 MHz proposal. Seidenberg “is not available to debate” Hundt, said a Verizon Wireless spokesman. “There is a process at the FCC which former Chairman Hundt knows well,” he said. “That’s where we will air these issues.” Frontline also drew fire from AT&T for including in the record a blog purporting to show AT&T support for part of Frontline’s proposal. AT&T said it doesn’t back imposing a requirement that the winner of a 700 MHz E-block license offer wholesale spectrum usage and let all legal devices connect to the network, commonly known as open access. “Our position has not changed,” said AT&T. “As we've stated on the record at the FCC, mandated ‘open access’ conditions on licenses in the 700 MHz band should be rejected.” Added an AT&T spokesman, “We need to see the specific rules the FCC adopts for the auction before determining our level of participation.”