The FCC will give careful consideration to the...
The FCC will give careful consideration to the Department of Justice’s recent filing on spectrum aggregation (CD April 15 p7), FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in the news conference after the Thursday commission meeting. “Spectrum related issues will continue to…
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be a high priority at the commission for a very long time,” he said. “Both addressing the spectrum crunch and freeing up more spectrum for all mobile carriers and ensuring a competitive landscape.” The wireless industry is no longer headed toward “duopoly,” he said. “The DOJ filing is an important one. It will be considered very seriously in our proceeding.” Jonathan Lee, a former Justice lawyer who does work for carriers, questioned in a blog post the premise of the filing (http://bit.ly/1764qYK). “The Department’s ‘advice’ contained all the acuity, but none of the profanity (and occasional hilarity), of a drunken sports heckler (like Bud Light’s Mr. Pro Sports Heckler Guy),” he said. “The Department’s ‘advice,’ while generally a meandering discussion of points not in contention, such as the DOJ’s horizontal merger analysis and the many benefits of competition, also included such ‘game changing’ spectrum auction tips as ‘protect competition’, ‘don’t award spectrum to buyers that won’t use it efficiently’, and ’spectrum below 1 GHz is cheaper for smaller competitors to use.'"