[1st-mile-nm] The FCC Veers Off Course on Mobile Auctions

[Michael Price]

Thought this would interest everyone…

The FCC Veers Off Course on Mobile Auctions

In early 2012, Congress authorized the FCC to conduct new auctions for radio frequencies (or “spectrum”) urgently needed to expand mobile networks. The auctions are aimed at solving capacity constraints already causing regular headaches for many mobile broadband consumers, a problem the agency’s former chairman, Julius Genachowski, first referred to in 2009 as the “spectrum crisis.”

Full story at All Things Digital<http://allthingsd.com/20130904/the-fcc-veers-off-course-on-mobile-auctions/?refcat=voices>

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