Delay on Spectrum Models Raises Suspicion
August 7, 2011
[Commentary] The Federal Communications Commission was supposed to make public its technical models for its proposed spectrum reallocation that would make its proposed auction plan possible. Broadcasters are still waiting. It keeps promising, but it never delivers and that's straining the commission's credibility. Until the modeling is made public, broadcasters should remain skeptical — and wary — of the anything having to do with incentive auctions. And Congress, too.
Delay on Spectrum Models Raises Suspicion