GN Docket No. 12-268: Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions; WT Docket No. 12-269: Policies Regarding Mobile Spectrum Holdings; AU Docket No. 14-252: Comment Sought on Competitive Bidding Procedures for Broadcast Incentive Auction 1000, Including Auctions 1001 and 1002
On May 5, 2015, Steve Berry, Tim Donovan and Rebecca Thompson of Competitive Carriers Association (CCA); Harold Feld of Public Knowledge; Michael Calabrese of New America’s Open Technology Institute; Tony Veach of the Rural Wireless Association, Inc. (RWA); Brian Ford of NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association; Jeff Blum and Alison Minea of DISH Network Corporation (DISH); Larry Krevor, Gardner Foster and Rafi Martina of Sprint Corporation (Sprint); Alan Hill of COMPTEL; Kathleen Ham and Steve Sharkey of T-Mobile USA, Inc. (T-Mobile); and Trey Hanbury, counsel for T-Mobile (collectively, “SaveWirelessChoice”), met with Howard Symons, James Wiley, Mary Margaret Jackson and Catherine Matraves (by phone) of the Incentive Auction Task Force; Roger Sherman, Jim Schlichting, John Leibovitz, Joel Taubenblatt, Martha Stancil, Margaret Wiener, Melissa Dunford, and Karen Sprung of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau; and Evan Kwerel of the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis to discuss various aspects of the 600 MHz broadcast incentive auction.