October 2003

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
How the Net Can Save Telecoms

COPYRIGHT
FCC Targets Copying of Digital TV

INTERNET
VeriSign to Revive Redirect Service

DIGITAL DIVIDE
India Bridges Digital Divide

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

HOW THE NET CAN SAVE TELECOMS
In the 1990s, a few long-distance companies began installing so-called
Internet protocol (IP) gear, believing that the idea would quickly spread.
But by late 2000, capital spending had slammed to a halt, and the IP
transition slowed. Now digital convergence appears to be making a comeback.
Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers says the change to a single
packet network that serves voice, data, wireless, and Internet service is
inevitable, but he expects telecom carriers to take anywhere from 1 to 10
years to make the move. The elusive prospect for video over the telecom
networks appears a little closer to reality with Microsoft's unveiling of
new software to support movies, TV, and other forms of video delivered over
the Web by telecoms. Sun is advancing its idea of "network computing," which
features a memory card that users can plug into a network computer anywhere
in the world to retrieve all their data. The new trend for telecoms is
micro-markets, says HP's Phillip McKinney. "In the past, telecom companies
were happy if they introduced 10 new services a year. But the business is
changing. In the future, they will need 500," he explained.
SOURCE: Business Week; AUTHOR: Steve Rosenbush
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2003/tc20031014_8966_t...
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COPYRIGHT

FCC TARGETS COPYING OF DIGITAL TV
For the first time, it might become a requirement that consumer and other
electronics devices contain technology to help block Internet piracy of
digital entertainment. The Federal Communications Commission is considering
one of a series of proposals pushed by the entertainment industry to help
obstruct the copying and online trading of movies and television shows. The
new rule would also force consumers to purchase new equipment if they wanted
to record enhanced digital-quality television programs and replay them on
other machines. With this rule, the FCC will address how programming can be
protected from piracy, which undermines the lucrative aftermarket of videos
and television syndication. Opponents of the rule, including technology
companies and consumer groups, are concerned that the rule will lead to
government regulation of how personal computers and other devices are built.
The rule will not affect consumers who use VCRs to record TV shows and
movies. The FCC has taken on one of the most contentious issues of the
computer age: how to how to protect against unauthorized use of digital
entertainment when part of its appeal is the increased ability to manipulate
it, customize it and transfer it to different locations.
SOURCE: Washington Post; AUTHOR: Jonathan Krim
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32173-2003Oct15.html

INTERNET

VERISIGN TO RECEIVE REDIRECT SERVICE
Yesterday at a gathering of technical experts in Washington DC, VeriSign
said it will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming Site Finder, the
controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirects many .com and
.net domains. The company's internal re-evaluation of its Site Finder
redirection service found "no identified security or stability problems."
Its own expert group, including the chief technology officers of Brightmail
and Morgan Stanley, reviewed Site Finder and decided that most issues were
"minor or inconvenient," VeriSign says. When Site Finder was active, it
added a "wild card" for .com and .net domains that snared queries to
nonexistent Internet sites and forwarded them to VeriSign's own servers.
Anti-spam filters and other network utilities were affected by the
redirection, but VeriSign claims that the benefits to users outweighs the
costs to network administrators. "One of the segments of the community that
has not been looked at in this whole issue, in my opinion, is the user
community," VeriSign Vice President Chuck Gomes said. "They're very
relevant." VeriSign says that before resuming Site Finder, it will address
specific criticisms by adding foreign language support to the site and
updating the way email works with nonexistent domains.
SOURCE: CNET News; AUTHOR: Declan McCullagh
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5092133.html?tag=nefd_top

DIGITAL DIVIDE

INDIA BRIDGES DIGITAL DIVIDE
Sukanya Sakkarai, 19, thought her future would the same as most young women
living in the farming village of Ulagupitchanpatti, India, but then the
information age arrived on her doorstep. A communications company scouted
Sakkarai to open a computer-equipped "information kiosk" in the village. At
first, Sakkarai was apprehensive, but now she runs a thriving small
business, which charges moderate fees for services that range from Internet
browsing and email to daily computer classes to weekend screenings of
Tamil-language films by means of her computer's CD-ROM drive. More
importantly, she acts as a kind of village ombudsman, brokering email
exchanges and even videoconferences between semiliterate villagers and the
government bureaucrats who still control many aspects of their lives.
Backers predict that these types of information kiosks will be starting up
all across the nation of more than a billion people, who until now had
little access to government officials and reaped few benefits from the
country's booming trade in information technologies.
SOURCE: MSNBC News; AUTHOR: John Lancaster, Washington Post
http://www.msnbc.com/news/979311.asp#BODY

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INTERNET
Site Has the Vision-impaired in Mind

TELEVISION
Commentary: Finally, Something Good on German TV

TECHNOLOGY
Technology Opens Books for Teenager

PRIVACY
Smile, You're on Candid Cellphone Camera

EVENTS
First FCC Localism Task Force Hearing to Be Held Next Week

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INTERNET

SITE HAS THE VISION-IMPAIRED IN MIND
Lighthouse International has launched VisionConnection.org, a Yahoo
alternative for the 40 million blind people worldwide and 140 million who
have only partial sight. The site, specifically designed so screen readers
and magnification software work well with it, features large type, legible
fonts, reverse contrast and text-only pages for people with partial sight.
It also provides links to many sites that are accessible to the
vision-impaired and resources for those with vision problems. Although the
Internet has been around more than 10 years, some websites are still not
accessible for different groups of people, especially for those with
impaired vision. Many sites claim to be accessible because they allow
screen-reader software to be used with them, but they really aren't, says
Patrick Benson of Lighthouse International. He says without accompanying
pictures, the words are often "completely unintelligible." According to the
Pew Internet & American Life Project, although 63 percent of American adults
are online overall, only 38 percent of disabled adults were online in 2002.
Critics say the Internet is too visual, and responsibility lies in the hands
of designers and those in authority to make sure websites are accessible.
SOURCE: USA TODAY; AUTHOR: Janet Kornblum
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-10-13-vision-usat_x.htm

TELEVISION

FINALLY, SOMETHING GOOD ON GERMAN TV
[Commentary] Thomas W. Hazlett, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for
Policy Research, sees lessons for the United States in Germany's move to
all-digital TV. The lessons for American policymakers, he writes, are that
the paralysis that grips the digital TV transition can be overcome, and that
taking away analog TV is not political suicide. Hazlett argues that the
United States should make a clean switch to digital as Berlin did.
Ninety-four million US TV households, which subscribe to cable or satellite,
wouldn't even notice the difference. The remaining 13 million households
would have a choice to begin subscribing to cable or satellite, buy a
digital converter box, or use the TV set as a DVD display monitor. Digital
converters for low-income households could be subsidized. As it is, the US
transition to digital television is nowhere in sight, writes Hazlett. Analog
TV broadcasts will be turned off on Dec. 31, 2006, but only in markets where
more than 85 percent of households can receive digital broadcasting over the
air. The FCC's digital-TV-tuner mandate amounts to a hefty tax on TV sets
for the majority of Americans, who don't need a digital tuner, he argues.
SOURCE: Slate; AUTHOR: Thomas Hazlett
http://slate.msn.com/id/2089424

TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY OPENS BOOKS FOR TEENAGER
The East Tennessee Technology Access Center (ETTAC) is making reading easier
for Maria Creswell and other people with disabilities. In the past, reading
was challenging for 14-year-old Creswell. She has cerebral palsy, a disorder
that affects movement control and makes holding a book difficult. Through
ETTAC, Maria has the opportunity to read books that have been adapted to a
computer program. She can click a button with her right hand and flip
through an on-screen list of actions such as read out loud, turn the page
and start over. ETTAC helps people with disabilities by loaning them
expensive assistive technology devices to use while they are saving to buy
one. This allows people to test devices before purchasing them. "We use
technology to help people with disabilities do things they may not otherwise
be able to do," says Lois Symington, ETTAC's executive director. ETTAC also
provides programs and technologies that help children with disabilities
learn to read and improve their communication skills. Moreover, the center
helps teachers adapt classrooms and teaching techniques to better help
disabled children.
SOURCE: Knox News; AUTHOR: Beth Rucker
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_2336261,00...
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PRIVACY

SMILE YOU'RE ON CANDID CELLPHONE CAMERA
The audience for cellphone cameras and Internet phonecam sites is rapidly
increasing as privacy becomes a matter of ethics more than legality. Last
week, Philadelphia resident Gary Dann flipped open his palm-sized camera
phone and pretended to look up a number while taking a picture of a man in a
grocery store who was yelling at the cashier because his credit card did not
go through. Moments later the picture appeared on Dann's website with a less
than flattering caption. This is just one example of the millions of
surreptitious snapshots phoned into cyberspace as a result of cellphone
cameras. Some of Dann's other subjects include a drunken man on the street,
an obese woman buying Weight Watchers meals and a psychic who was not
psychic enough to know she was being photographed. Recently, these devices
have been banned from some federal buildings, movie screenings, health club
locker rooms and corporate offices. Legally, self-made candid camera
photographers are in the clear, but ethically privacy issues are debatable.
Cameras will soon be able to capture everything, which has dramatic
implications for how people choose to live their public lives, says James
Katz, a professor of communication at Rutgers.
SOURCE: New York Times; AUTHOR: Amy Harmon
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/weekinreview/12HARM.html?ex=1067141009...
1&en=8956a82d5de94eac

EVENTS

FIRST FCC LOCALISM TASK FORCE HEARING TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK
The FCC's Localism Task Force has announced the schedule of six public
hearings it will hold to solicit input from consumers, industry, civic
organizations and others regarding broadcast localism. The first of these
town meetings is to be held October 22, 2003, at 6 pm. It will take place at
the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, 600 E. Fourth Street,
Charlotte, North Carolina. One or more Commissioners will chair each
meeting, with an important focus being to gather information and to conduct
outreach for the nationwide round of broadcast station license renewals that
is just beginning.
SOURCE: FCC; CONTACT: Michelle Russo
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-239578A2.doc

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INTERNET
Commentary: So Much for Michael Powell's Net Vision
Court's Call: Hands Off VoIP

BROADCASTING
Commentary: Overuse Robs Shock Word of its Power

EDTECH
Grant to Help Teachers Make Use of Technology

DIGITAL DIVIDE
Housing Authority Gets Grant for Computers
V-Empower Wants to Give Small Orgs Web Expertise

SPECTRUM
Northpoint Getting Help in Quest for Spectrum

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INTERNET

SO MUCH FOR MICHAEL POWELL'S NET VISION
[Commentary] In the view of Business Week's Alex Salkever, FCC Chairman
Michael Powell's plan to deregulate the communications and media industries
may be ready for life support. First it was the media ownership debacle, and
now a US court has decided that cable-TV companies should allow competing
Internet service providers (ISPs) to sell Web access over broadband cable
networks. Salkever writes that the ruling could have a more severe impact
for the Bells than for cable companies, as the Bells are relying more on
growth prospects from broadband to supplement declining revenues in landline
markets. The Bells and cable companies are expected to mount sustained
lobbying and judicial offensives, particularly fearing that if the Democrats
win the White House in 2004, they would lose Powell along with their chance
to benefit from his agenda. Perhaps most importantly, "a broad shift in
court policy that views the Internet as an extension of existing telecom
services could pave the way for laws guaranteeing high-speed Net access to
all communities, much like the universal access provisions for local phone
service," writes Salkever.
SOURCE: Business Week; AUTHOR: Alex Salkever
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2003/tc2003108_1029_tc119.
htm

COURT'S CALL: HANDS OFF VoIP
Internet phone providers have won the first battle against state regulators
to forego regulations placed on traditional telephone companies. Minneapolis
federal Judge Michael J. Davis permanently barred the state of Minnesota
from applying traditional telephone rules to Vonage, which lets consumers
bypass the traditional phone network by making voice calls over a broadband
connection. For now, the state plans to comply with the court decision, says
Stuart Mitchell, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission analyst. The ruling
frees Vonage to sell Internet phone service in Minnesota without obtaining a
telephone operator's license or paying fees to support 911 services.
Furthermore, the order is the first to address state authority over
so-called voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). "This ruling is a significant
victory for Vonage and (VoIP) technology," Vonage said in a statement. This
decision mounts growing pressure on the FCC and Congress to revise the rules
and definitions, which previously have drawn a strict division between voice
networks and data networks. "We're not suggesting that broadband telephony
should never be regulated, but it can't be squeezed into existing
regulation," Vonage Chief Financial Officer John Rego said in a recent
interview.
SOURCE: CNET News.com; AUTHOR: Ben Charny and Evan Hansen
http://news.com.com/2100-7352_3-5088158.html

TELEVISION

OVERUSE ROBS SHOCK WORD OF ITS POWER
[Commentary] "Now that California has chosen as its leader a man who admits
to having groped women, it's time to lift the flimsy veil off the F-word and
let it stand proudly," writes columnist Susan Ager. She is referring to the
FCC's decision that U2 singer Bono did not violate TV obscenity standards by
uttering these words on a music awards show: "This is really, really
(F-word)ing brilliant." The FCC concluded the word was acceptable because
Bono used a variant that had nothing to do with sex. Jesse Sheidlower,
linguist and principal North American editor of the esteemed Oxford English
Dictionary, said the FCC ruled correctly because the F-word is rarely used
anymore in sexual references, but most often as "a general intensifier."
"There's no question," he added, "that in the last 10 to 15 years, it's been
increasingly acceptable and appearing in places it never appeared in the
past."
SOURCE: Detroit Free Press; AUTHOR: Susan Ager
http://www.freep.com/features/living/ager9_20031009.htm

EDTECH

GRANT TO HELP TEACHERS MAKE USE OF TECHNOLOGY
The federal government recently awarded Columbus State University's (CSU)
College of Education a $1.5 million federal grant to teach teachers how to
use technology to improve reading skills. This U.S. Department of Education
grant will target reading deficiency, which is the most urgent need in many
surrounding counties, says Elizabeth Holmes, Director of CSU's Educational
Technology Training Center. In West Central Georgia, the percentage of
adults that do not graduate from high school is about twice the national
average. "Too often, the cause of this academic failure begins with reading
difficulties," she says. Web-enhanced learning tools can make a difference,
if the technology is available in the classrooms and the teachers know how
to use it, she adds. CSU's multi-faceted approach will revise curriculum,
training teachers and students on latest technology, and incorporate the use
of online programming and software designed to identify problems and develop
individualized solutions.
Source: Ledger-Enquirer
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/6966957.htm

DIGITAL DIVIDE

HOUSING AUTHORITY GETS GRANT FOR COMPUTERS
The Columbus Housing Authority in Georgia received $200,000 in federal funds
to equip and staff a computer lab. This Neighborhood Networks grant, along
with vocational and social counseling, is part of an 18-month relocation
process for Peabody Apartment Residents. The authority received a $20
million grant to tear down and revitalize the Peabody housing complex over
the next two years. "We hope to help bridge the digital divide," said Amy
Carroll, who is overseeing the Peabody project for the Housing Authority.
"We will provide the computer training in hopes we can make them
self-sufficient." The lab should be operational by early next year. The
authority asked for a $180,000 grant, but was pleasantly surprised to learn
the grant was increased by $20,000. "That is the first time I have ever seen
that," Williams said. The Fulton County Housing Authority was the only other
authority in Georgia to receive the Neighborhood Networks grant.
SOURCE: Ledger-Enquirer; AUTHOR: Chuck Williams
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/6966954.htm

V-EMPOWER WANTS TO GIVE SMALL ORGANIZATIONS WEB EXPERTISE
Often small organizations and nonprofits cannot afford to hire expensive
consultants or in-house Web developers. As a result, communication
technologies are often underutilized in this sector. In 2000, Shukoor Ahmed
set out to change that by starting a company that sells software to aid
small political and nonprofit organizations to become more efficient and
tech savvy. Organizations can use communication technologies to stay up to
speed on what government is doing, says Ahmed. "One of the biggest things
that came up is the lack of expertise in information systems in politics and
public policy," he continues. "We felt there was a disconnect between
citizens and legislators." The V-Empower software serves a range of
functions for organizations, including the management of Internet donations
and the capability to create surveys that can gauge member opinions. The
software can be customized and implemented in less than three days. A little
over two years after start up, the company has 39 organizations as customers
and hopes to increase sales in the next year.
SOURCE: Washington Post; AUTHOR: Ellen McCarthy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48289-2003Oct5.html

SPECTRUM

NORTHPOINT GETTING HELP IN QUEST FOR SPECTRUM
Satellite television companies might have to start sharing spectrum with
companies like Northpoint Technology Ltd., which wants to build a land-based
network of antennas to beam TV and Internet services to consumers. The firm
says it would like to provide access to millions of Americans, who are
underserved or overcharged. Critics say Northpoint is just a politically
connected firm using its influence to freeload off American tax dollars by
getting a free operating license. After petitioning Congress, Northpoint,
with help from some key figures, managed to get language inserted in two
bills that would grant licenses to those airwaves for free rather than force
the firm to submit to a FCC public auction. If Northpoint "can go head to
head with incumbent cable systems in all parts of the country, I believe
that this good old-fashioned competition will result in lower prices and
better service for consumers," says Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA). Not all
agree. The FCC rejected the firm's petition for a license and scheduled a
public auction in 2004 for a part of the spectrum, which governments
estimates is worth $60 to $100 million.
SOURCE: Washington Post; AUTHOR: Juliet Eilperin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58840-2003Oct7.html

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CABLE
Ruling Opens Cable Lines

E-GOVERNMENT
Study Touts E-Government

21ST CENTURY SKILLS
Sharpen Skills to Keep US Tech Edge

EDTECH
Tech is Key to Rural School Success

SPECTRUM
An Alternative Spectrum Auction Design for the FCC

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CABLE

RULING OPENS CABLE LINES
A US Court of Appeals has banned the FCC from completing its plan to allow
cable companies to exclude rivals from selling competing brands of Internet
service over their lines. This decision could lead to more choices for
consumers as well as more competitive pressure for the cable industry.
"Cable-modem users deserve choice in high-speed Internet providers," said
Dave Baker of EarthLink Inc. FCC Chairman Powell vowed to appeal the
decision, saying the ruling 'effectively stops a vitally important policy
debate in its tracks,' producing 'a strange result' which will throw a
monkey wrench into the FCC's efforts to develop a vitally important national
broadband policy." The FCC adopted its deregulatory framework to encourage
cable company investment in fiber-optic networks. The court said that cable
Internet service should be classified as a telecommunications service, which
subjects it to same regulation governing high-speed Internet access. The
decision could help companies such as Earthlink and America Online because
they are moving their customer base from slower-dial up to higher-speed data
services. Though cable companies are not required to open their networks,
some have voluntarily done so in some markets.
SOURCE: Washington Post; AUTHOR: Christopher Stern and Jonathan Krim
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52839-2003Oct6.html

E-GOVERNMENT

STUDY TOUTS E-GOVERNMENT
Deloitte Research has released a study entitled "Citizen Advantage:
Enhancing Economic Competitiveness Through Government," which examines the
time and effort required to comply with regulatory and reporting
requirements in conducting government transactions. The study suggests that
public sector organizations should evaluate information technology (IT)
investments not only by the cost savings they generate for government, but
by the financial benefits they create for citizens and businesses. For
example, the Small Business Association's Business Compliance One Stop Web
site saves US businesses about $526 million a year by helping them find,
understand and comply with regulations. "We believe that the success of
government programs should be measured by the true advantages they create
for citizens, communities, and industries," said Greg Pellegrino of Deloitte
Consulting. According to the report, the key is to employ technologies more
widely and effectively by looking at government systems and processes from
the citizen's point of view. To this end, Deloitte has developed a Citizen
Advantage Calculator that demonstrates systematic ways to measure
constituent time and resource savings.
SOURCE: Consultant News
http://www.consultant-news.com/Article_Display.asp?ID=953
For a copy of the report, visit www.dc.com

21ST CENTURY SKILLS

SHARPEN SKILLS TO KEEP US TECH EDGE
Panelists at a discussion organized by the Information Technology
Association of America (ITAA) emphasized that IT professionals need to
invest regularly in training, whether they are employed or job hunting. With
the increasing trend towards outsourcing comes lost jobs, lost tax revenue
from laid-off employees, and potential security problems, particularly in
the handling of sensitive government data, said Bruce Mehlman of the US
Department of Commerce. But instead of lobbying for protection of domestic
jobs, US companies and universities should focus on leading-edge technology
to take advantage of emerging opportunities, argued the panel. "We don't
know the new technologies that will come (but) they will come, they will
always come. Our challenge is to make sure that we are positioned in terms
of our educational system, in terms of our economy to jump on board those
technologies," said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at Global Insight.
"There is no safe expertise and there is no safe skill," Mehlman said. "It's
incumbent upon individuals as well as companies trying to maintain their
work force to constantly learn."
SOURCE: CNET; AUTHOR: Martin LaMonica
http://news.com.com/2100-1011_3-5086181.html?tag=nefd_top

EDTECH

TECH IS KEY TO RURAL SCHOOL SUCCESS
The Rural Education Task Force and US Secretary of Education Rod Paige
hosted a virtual town hall meeting, which showcased how technology is
helping schools in remote areas of Montana, West Virginia, New Mexico, and
Iowa. Presenters said technology could play a key role in addressing
barriers faced by rural schools, from the need for more teachers who are
highly qualified to higher-level instruction and more accurate assessment of
student achievement. Paige stated, "[The Internet] brings unlimited
information, entire libraries, courses, and instruction to anywhere you have
a modem and a server." Innovative uses of technology that were presented
include: using personal digital assistants (PDAs) for real-time assessment
of reading scores, providing online courses through several content
providers, and delivering foreign language and upper-level math courses via
videoconferencing. Undersecretary of Education Eugene Hickok says the
problem is no longer a lack of access to technology; instead, it's a lack of
creativity on the part of schools in how they choose to integrate technology
into the classroom.
SOURCE: eSchool News; AUTHOR: Corey Murray
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/ssunreg.cfm?ArticleID=4698&ul=%2Fnews%2F...
Story%2Ecfm%3FArticleID%3D4698

SPECTRUM

AN ALTERNATIVE SPECTRUM AUCTION DESIGN FOR THE FCC
The latest working paper from New America's Spectrum Policy Program is
called "Interlicense Competition: Spectrum Deregulation Without Confiscation
or Giveaways." The paper presents an auction design that could help the FCC
accomplish its goal of facilitating spectrum flexibility and secondary
markets, without granting massive windfalls to incumbent licensees. The
right to use US radio frequency spectrum is extremely valuable. Economic
efficiency suggests that existing license rights should be expanded to give
users the flexibility to redeploy spectrum to its most valuable use and to
trade licenses or unused capacity on secondary markets. This paper proposes
"interlicense competition" as a more balanced and equitable auction
mechanism than the "two-sided auction" proposed by the FCC. Interlicense
competition grants license relaxation rights using competition, while
ensuring that the government still obtains the fair value of the licenses it
is granting. The availability of this auction mechanism means that it is not
necessary to give away spectrum to incumbents to gain the advantages of
fully flexible license rights.
SOURCE: New America Foundation; AUTHOR: Michael H. Rothkopf and Coleman
Bazelon
http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=article&pubID=1329

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