Quartet of Senators Warn Against Limiting Auction Bidders

On the eve of the Federal Communications Commission's vote on incentive auction rules, a pair of senators from each party asked FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to reconsider auction rules that "will limit participation by certain carriers in many markets across the country."

Signing the letter were Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Charles Schumer (D-NY), John Thune (R-SD), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH). They said that limiting participation could not only result in less spectrum being put into the market, but less revenue to pay for not only the FirstNet interoperable broadband public safety network but the $20 billion that incentive auction is expected to contribute to deficit reduction.