Rural Carrier Advocates Ask for Bigger Bidding Credit for Incentive Auction
Groups representing rural wireless carriers are pressing the FCC to increase the rural carrier bidding credit from a proposed 15 percent to 25 percent, as the agency takes up revised designated entity (DE) rules before the TV incentive auction. Representatives…
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of Blooston Mordkofsky, the Rural Wireless Association, NTCA and Bennet & Bennet discussed the topic with Louis Peraertz, aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, said a filing in docket 14-170. “Additional bidding credit support is needed in order to level the playing field for rural carriers and to give them a fighting chance when bidding for highly sought-after low-band spectrum,” the filing said. The rural advocates noted that rural carriers had little success in the AWS-3 auction. “CTTC -- a bidder that was ineligible for a small business bidding credit in Auction 97 and would also be ineligible in the Incentive Auction under the proposed thresholds -- was outbid by a Special Purpose DE substantially owned by DISH Network, Inc. that had access to a 25 percent bid credit,” the filing said.