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Verizon Wireless Sues Over FCC Open-Access Auction Rules

September 13, 2007 6:35 PM | Verizon | Comments (1)

Verizon Wireless isn't happy with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 700 MHz recent open-access rules and has filed a lawsuit which creates uncertainty with the upcoming auction of the more than a thousand wireless airwaves licenses. 

Last month the FCC added open-access requirements to a third of the spectrum to be auctioned.  However, the mobile-phone industry is very opposed to attaching conditions to any of the 700 MHz spectrum, claiming that the conditions attached “violates the U.S. Constitution, violates the Administrative Procedures Act … and is arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by the substantial evidence and otherwise contrary to law.” 

However, the mobile-phone industry was caught off guard when AT&T unexpectedly supported FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s 700 MHz plan.


The FCC open-access plan requires winning bidders of the 22 MHz worth of licenses permit any device and application on their networks, as long as they don’t harm the networks.  This is something that Google, Frontline Wireless, Skype, and others lobbied for along with wholesale mandates in the 700 MHz spectrum which wasn't granted by the FCC.

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I know Verizon & others have to be very worried if Google and Yahoo release free cell phones!

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