RWA, NTCA Seek Incentive Auction Pause During Association Meetings
The Rural Wireless Association and NTCA asked the FCC to slow or even pause the TV incentive auction while meetings by its members are in progress next month. RWA meets at CTIA's conference Sept. 7-9 and NTCA and RWA have…
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annual meetings Sept. 26-28, the filing said. If the FCC doesn’t pause the auction during those dates it should hold only one round per day, the groups said. “The Associations’ members have limited personnel resources to dedicate to auction participation,” the groups said in a filing in docket 14-252. “Small staffs already manage a substantial workload, and auction participation over a lengthy and unpredictable time period will stretch limited personnel resources even further. In many cases, the leaders that attend industry events to conduct their companies’ business are the same individuals named as their companies’ authorized bidders in Auction 1002.” Auction 1002 is the FCC’s formal name for the forward part of the incentive auction.