Studies: Incumbents Blocked New Rivals in Spectrum Auction

STUDIES: INCUMBENTS BLOCKED NEW RIVALS IN SPECTRUM AUCTION
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Kent Gibbons]
Public-interest law firm Media Access Project said incumbent broadband carriers, including large U.S. cable and phone companies, successfully blocked potential key new competitors -- including direct-broadcast satellite companies -- from winning wireless-broadband-spectrum auctions last year. Through “retaliatory” bids aimed at scaring off bidders considered significant new threats, cable and telephone companies kept targeted newcomers from winning licenses in the advanced-wireless-services auction last August and September, according to studies prepared by economist Gregory A. Rose for the telecommunications-oriented nonprofit law firm. MAP said the targeted new entrants included Wireless DBS, a notable bidding group because it combined both DBS powers, EchoStar Communications and DirecTV.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6435898.html

* MAP Releases Two Studies Proving Anti-Competitive Behavior in AWS Auction
http://www.mediaaccess.org/press/MAP%20Press%20Release%204-23-07.pdf (Press Release)
http://www.mediaaccess.org/filings/Rose_How_Incumbents_Blocked.pdf (study)

* Rose Reports Prove What We Said Last Summer: Cable and Wireless Incumbents Leverage Auction Rules To Block Competition
http://feeds.publicknowledge.org/~r/publicknowledge-main/~3/111420536/917

* Dr. Rose Proves It Was Spectrum Co. In The Kitchen With the Candlestick . . .
http://www.wetmachine.com/totsf/