Federal Communications Commission, March 20, 2008
By Jonathan Adelstein

Preliminary FCC data regarding winning bidders in the 700 MHz auction indicated that, based on self-reporting, women-owned bidders failed to win any licenses and minority-owned bidders won less than one percent of licenses (7 of 1,090 licenses, or .064%), despite the fact that women constitute over half the U.S. population and minorities around one-third of the U.S. population.

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