Private Deals for C-Band Access Smartest, Quickest Route, R Street Alliance Says
The FCC and Congress should be for all private deals for C-band spectrum, since the C-Band Alliance approach eliminates the problem of a lone holdout that has full-band full-arc access to the spectrum kiboshing any deal, said R Street Institute…
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Technology Policy Fellow Joe Kane in a docket 18-122 posting Tuesday. An incentive auction approach, meanwhile, means no negotiations over non-price variables, leaving the FCC to figure out how to repack the spectrum post auction, leading to delays and additional costs, R Street said. With its "dizzying array" of subsidies and designated entity credits, an auction isn't any more likely to produce better outcomes for consumers than a private sale would "and ... may well produce one that is worse," it said.