Friday, June 20, 2008

FCC: where did we go wrong with D block?

The FCC is shortly due to publish proposals for the re-auctioning of D Block which failed to sell in the US 700MHz auction. The regulator says it wants new ideas from stakeholders, but not everyone is convinced.

In March the rest of the 700MHz spectrum went for a record price of more than US$19 billion, but D Block failed to get close to its reserve of $1.3 billion</a> with the sole bidder, Qualcomm, making a single bid for $472 million.

Read the full details at:

http://www.policytracker.com/alerts.php?tact=764

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