CTIA’s request to delay 700 MHz spectrum auction is ‘groundless,’...
CTIA’s request to delay 700 MHz spectrum auction is “groundless,” said Lowell Paxson, chmn. of Paxson Communications and founder of Spectrum Clearing Alliance. He said bidders had had 21 months to assess market conditions and it was “nonsense” to…
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suggest more time was needed (CD April 4 p9, April 3 p5): “Quite frankly, CTIA has used the Section 309 argument to delay this auction for far too many years,” Paxson said. He also suggested not all CTIA members wanted auction postponed. “There may never be perfect certainty on all matters regarding the 700 MHz auction,” Paxson said: “If the FCC is to wait until there is ‘regulatory certainty’… then this auction will never be held.”