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“The dictum, ‘first, do no harm,’ is a duty commonly assigned to physicians” and would be a good rule to live by for the FCC as it pushes forward on an incentive auction of broadcast TV spectrum, said Robert Hahn…

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and Peter Passell of Regulation2point0 in a Wednesday blog post. The two said the FCC should be especially wary about excluding any carriers from participating in the auction. “The U.S. market is working remarkably well,” they said (http://bit.ly/WWm91D). “Restricting participation in the next spectrum auction could well slow innovation if the ‘reward’ for market success is to make it harder to acquire additional spectrum for continued growth.”