While our first ever national broadband plan doesn't really address competition, one of its primary pushes is to create a national wireless broadband network. A new Congressional push may pre-empt that effort, however. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W Va.) is now pushing a bill to create a national wireless network -- and the only difference from the FCC's plan is it doesn't involve auctioning off D-Block spectrum to commercial providers. Rockefeller's plan instead pushed for this freed spectrum to be controlled directly by first responder groups. Carrier like T-Mobile, who were hoping to win some of this spectrum at auction, aren't happy about the plan. Verizon however seems thrilled that spectrum is going to be doled out to first responders and not carriers directly -- which tells us there's more detail buried in Rockefeller's bill we haven't found yet.

A little more detail on this here.