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FCC Pulls Back On Free Broadband Auction

posted Jun 6, 2008, 7:40 AM   by Eric M. Zeman
updated Jun 6, 2008, 12:40 PM

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FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has decided to delay a vote on a new AWS auction that was to take place on June 12. One reason he cited for delaying the vote was to give the FCC's commissioners more time to review the idea. This auction plans to sell a 25MHz slice of spectrum with the provision that the winner provide free wireless broadband to certain percentages of the country over time. The delay on the vote will be at least one month. The auction could still be approved as early as July, with the rules put into place by August, and the auction itself taking place before the end of 2008.