To ensure success the FCC should not place...
To ensure success the FCC should not place limits on how much any carrier can buy in the upcoming incentive auction of broadcast TV spectrum, Free State Foundation Research Fellow Seth Cooper said in a paper released by the group.…
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“Amidst the myriad engineering and economic complexities confronting the FCC, here is one simple thing it must get right: The FCC should keep the upcoming incentive auction, in which it hopes that TV broadcasters will voluntarily offer up spectrum for sale, open to all wireless providers,” Cooper wrote (http://bit.ly/11syltq). “Congress required that auction proceeds meet minimal thresholds or the auction fails. Open eligibility is critical to ensuring the auction produces enough bid revenue to succeed. An open approach is also essential to ensuring the most efficient approach whereby those carriers that will pay the most for spectrum licenses can put those resources to their highest use."