more on FCC to auction three 3G bands from June 06

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ibd com>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:22:04 -0800
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Subject: Re: [IP] FCC to auction three 3G bands from June 06

Selling spectrum for exclusive, permanent ownership to a private or
corporate entity should be grounds for racketeering charges against the
agency pretending its theirs to sell and the congresspeople who passsed laws
allowing for this if they received bribes (so called campaign contributions)
from the industry that is getting these public commons at a fixed price, non
lease based price.

It is a sad day "For all of us who believe in the future of wireless
broadband". All this does is gum up the spectrum more and reward oligopolies
who try to control the last mile so they can foist their walled gardens on
the citizens who truly own the spectrum and have no real input to this
corporate giveaway.

Rob


On 12/30/04 1:07 PM, "David Farber" <dave () farber net> wrote:

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
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> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:44:40 -0800
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] FCC to auction three 3G bands from June 06
>
> Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/30/fcc_3g_auctions/
>
> FCC to auction three 3G bands from June 06
> By Tony Smith (tony.smith at theregister.co.uk)
> Published Thursday 30th December 2004 18:49 GMT
>
> The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will auction off the
> States' 1710-1755MHz and 2110-2155MHz spectrum bands to prospective 3G
> telephony providers by June 2006 at the earliest.
>
> The FCC will also auction off the 1432-1435MHz band soon afterward, the
> organisation said, possibly as early as July or August 2006.
>
> The June 2006 timetable emerged as the FCC filed its intention to open
> the two bands to the highest bidders with the US Department of
> Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration
> (NTIA).
>
> The NTIA notification must come at least 18 months before the auction
> process begins, according to the Commercial Spectrum Enhancement Act,
> which mandates that timeframe when one-time government-only spectrum is
> opened up to commercial usage, a process the Act was created to drive.
> In return, the NTIA has to tell the FCC how much the process of
> transferring federal users from the 1710-1755MHz band to another part
> of the spectrum is going to cost bidders.
>
> The FCC admitted that a number of requests have been made that the
> 1710-1755MHz and 2110-2155MHz bands not be transferred to commercial
> usage. However, the regulator said it expects to resolve these "in the
> very near future".
>
> The auctions themselves will provide successful bidders with licences
> to provide "advanced wireless services" - the FCC's formal language for
> 3G. The FCC said it hopes the transition will ensure US consumers get
> access to "competitive, high quality communications services".
>
> "For all of us who believe in the future of wireless broadband, it is
> truly a banner day," FCC chairman Michael 'Son of Colin' Powell in his
> letter to the NTIA.
>
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