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Frontline Asks FCC to Ban Verizon from Spectrum Auction
Reasonable request or just trying to eliminate the competition?

Verizon Wireless has drawn significant attention to itself regarding the FCC spectrum auction, lobbying the FCC to change the auction conditions while simultaneously suing the FCC outright in court over the same issue. Frontline, a startup wireless company competing against Verizon in the auction, wants the FCC to give Verizon more than just attention. The startup is asking the FCC to sanction Verizon by banning the company from the spectrum auction altogether.

What Frontline wants Verizon sanctioned for is their failure to comply with the FCC’s rules regarding required disclosure of communication with the FCC.

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“Frontline accused Verizon Wireless of not adequately disclosing the content of its conversation with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and his staff during a Sept. 17 meeting. Under the FCC's so-called ex parte rules, companies meeting or communicating with the FCC during an ongoing proceeding are required to disclose a description of those communications to other interested parties.”

Being banned from the auction isn’t the only reasonable sanction that the FCC could use in this case. Fining the company, requiring full disclosure at this time and disallowing Verizon from future auction filings are all also viable sanctions. Of course, those wouldn’t help Frontline nearly as much in gaining an edge over their competition in the auction.

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FFH5
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FFH5

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Frontline most likely fighting a losing battle

Frontline has been lobbying the FCC itself to set the rules in their favor and wants the FCC to give away spectrum instead of auctioning it off. While they may have followed disclosure rules, the FCC has not looked favorably on any plans that don't involve auctioning the spectrum off for cash to the government.

I seriously doubt that the FCC will apply any sanctions that involve blocking a major big money player like Verizon from bidding. They want to bring in the most money for the government and blocking Verizon from bidding would not achieve that.

MrMoody
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Re: Frontline most likely fighting a losing battle

Their normal M.O. is fining, that's what will happen if anything.

ripjackd_404
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ripjackd_404

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lower prices already..

what we need is for the other carriers to start lowering prices otherwise there shouldn't even be an auction.
screw the fcc getting top dollar for the spectrum, consumers need lower prices, not the top 6 cellular carriers getting more of a land grab which brings higher and higher wireless prices. at least 10 years after the copper wire went to UNLIMITED calling plans, the cellular industry is dragging its ass and dug-in to keep away from cheap unlimited calling plans!!!

And, if not that... how about prices below .05 per minute?
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53059959 (banned)
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Re: lower prices already..

theres no unlimited calling plans on copper, only local calls are unlimited. its the same with cellular where "local" becomes phones on the same network. you still pay extra for long distance whether its voip, cellular, or traditional landline. no matter how you slice it 20 million simultaneous calls takes up a lot of network bandwidth, and thats going to cost money.

Dezbend
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Dezbend

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Re: lower prices already..

I think he meant flat rate plans that give unlimited local and long distance calling. I just got one, because my wife and I noticed that nearly 90% of our wireless calls originated in our home. We got unlimited local and long distance on our home phone for only $15 more than we had been paying (I already had a POTS line for my DSL). This $15 increase on our home phone is probably saving us $100 on our wireless bill.
Desdinova
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I make LOTS of long distance calls and I don't nave nor want a cell phone. My long distance bills were around $300 a month until I ditched AT&T and signed up with one of Verizon's Freedom packages and now I'm paying $55 a month and making unlimited long distance calls to any cell or landline in the U.S. and Canada.

batterup
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batterup

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Frontline leaches die.

This is my spectrum. I want top dollar as that money goes into the US treasury. Now where will the US get money form if not Verizon? Mmmmmm, my pocket perhaps?

I find it disingenuous that the same people belch loud and long about public right-of-ways deserving more money for wires that have been up for 100 years and want to give away my brand new 700 spectrum.