Pickpocketing or Voluntary Auctions? The Wireless Spectrum Standoff

Pickpocketing or Voluntary Auctions? The Wireless Spectrum Standoff: "FCC Chair Julius Genachowski was on the road this week, giving the stump speech for the ’looming spectrum crisis’ tour. The bottom line is that smartphone demand is skyrocketing and that wireless broadband providers need more licenses down the line. Part of the pitch is that when broadcasters, the FCC, and Congress worked have worked together has worked in the past, good things happen. But on this matter, that ’working together’ bit hasn’t really come together so far."