AT&T and Verizon Lobby for Less FCC Spectrum Control; Sprint and Other Carriers Respond
Engadget, February 8, 2012
By Zachary Lutz
A new proposal contained within the JOBS Act, H.R. 3630 — a sweeping bill that primarily addresses the extension of unemployment benefits — threatens to strip the FCC of its authority to regulate spectrum auctions and return those auctions to the freewheeling Wild West era. Today the CEOs from many of the U.S.'s smaller telecoms — which include Sprint, T-Mobile and Cricket, among others — officially lodged their objections to this proposed bill based on the notion that, left unrestricted, AT&T and Verizon Wireless could start bullying smaller carriers in the race to acquire more spectrum.
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