FCC wants more ability for smaller bidders to get spectrum and discourage horders by imposing limits
AT&T Refuse to bid
FCC's plan works greater than expected.
Gee, some threat AT&T...
US wireless megacarrier AT&T has told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it could withdraw from an upcoming wireless spectrum auction over proposed buying limits. The carrier on Wednesday argued that if current caps aren't lifted, AT&T and other carriers would not be able to obtain enough spectrum space to …
Certainly not wireless carriers or their customers. The day when people are willing to subscribe to a carrier that has you roaming when you get 50 miles from home are in the past.
Maybe the FCC will get companies interested in deploying wireless broadband rather than cellular, but they certainly won't realize the maximum return on the auction by chasing away the national carriers.
Theoretically bandwidth is a shared resource held by the FCC in trust for The American People. So why do they sell it to the highest bidder, who gets all additional profit from then on out? They should be selling leases, for limited times (a decade?, 25 years?, perhaps less?) so a given spectrum would yield continuing, if intermittent, income for the future. Given the rate at which new services come up to take over from fading ones, claims of ``But we couldn't plan for the long term!'' won't wash---they can't do that now.
AT&T are only after Spectrum that rivals want and they want it all. They never improve their service quality and hold that spectrum over the rivals then sell the lease to them when they are desperate to realize money at a profit.
So yeah, got to agree with you, Fuck AT&T and also, while I am at it Fuck Verizon that pulls the same shit!