FCC Watching for AWS-3 Winners Who May Have Tried To 'Game the Auction Process,' Wheeler Tells Pallone
The FCC plans to take stock of “lessons learned” from the AWS-3 spectrum auction as it goes into the broadcast TV incentive auction, Chairman Tom Wheeler told House Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J. Pallone had asked about the…
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agency’s bidding rules for small businesses. “I remain committed to providing bona fide small businesses a meaningful opportunity to participate in that auction while protecting the integrity of the FCC auction program,” Wheeler told Pallone in a Feb. 27 letter released last week. The agency “takes seriously concerns” that some AWS-3 winners “may seek to capitalize on our rules” as a way to “receive benefits intended for small businesses or to game the auction process,” Wheeler said.