FCC Auction Of Spectrum Rights

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minority groups have the same opportunities to bid on spectrum rights as other corporations.

The reading states that efficiencies will be realized if bidders succeed in "aggregating some of the licenses." The government had a limited number of spectrum licenses available, that have to be spread over a large geographical area with many different wavelengths. Aggregation efficiencies allow firms to select a multitude of licenses that will work within their organization and system. By design, they are likely to choose those wavelengths that are most compatible. Each firm searching for spectrum rights typically has need for several "slices of the spectrum." When a license for one is not acquired, then they can bid on another compatible. Across states and boundaries, some efficiency must exist. Aggregation efficiencies allow for people, as exemplified in the writing, to have the ability to maintain roaming capabilities on their phone over a large region. If a customer is ...

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