1. A better idea is to auction digital licenses to whoever can make good use of the spectrum, whether they be broadcasters, computer or paging companies. 2. Congress need only look to Britain for a model by which digital licenses can be auctioned without wounding the broadcasters. 3. He plans to recoup money for U.S. taxpayers by auctioning those licenses four years earlier. 4. Hovnanian says that his crusade will be vindicated this fall when the Federal Communications Commission auctions licenses across the country. 5. Hundt wanted to auction licenses to the highest bidder. 6. In addition, the agency will begin auctioning licenses to offer new radio dispatch services, wireless cable TV services and interactive television services. 7. In exchange, NextWave would get the money raised when the government auctioned the licenses after the company failed to pay for them. 8. Instead, the FCC said it would auction the license. 9. Now the agency will propose how the two available licenses should be auctioned. 10. Since then, the ministry has pulled the license of one television station and threatened to auction the licenses of two others. |