Frontline Wirless and its BIG MOUTH Other Vista Discussions Discuss Frontline Wirless and its BIG MOUTH in the Windows Vista forums; Frontline Wireless Claims 700 MHz Auction 'in Jeopardy,' May Not Bid September 27 - 6:01 PM ET The maverick network service provider run by former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, and ...

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Frontline Wireless Claims 700 MHz Auction 'in Jeopardy,' May Not Bid
September 27 - 6:01 PM ET
The maverick network service provider run by former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, and that was largely responsible for convincing the US Federal Communications Commission to impose new and innovative rules for bidders on certain blocks of the 700 MHz UHF spectrum, is now saying it may not be able to bid after all. In a formal complaint to the FCC filed Monday, lawyers for Frontline Wireless accused the FCC of "getting it wrong" by having set the asking price of the choicest blocks in the auction too high.------
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At about the same time, AT&T - certainly one of those larger players - filed its own complaint with the FCC, charging the commission with stacking the deck against larger players by mandating that the winning bidder must cooperate with public agencies in the construction of a public service communications network for first responders. With Verizon also having come out against the auction rules two weeks ago, it looks like Chairman Martin may have been wrong when he indicated the compromise he reached in late July was at the behest of everyone involved.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Fron...Bid/1190930518