FCC Wireless Boss Assures States that Reverse Auctions Will Be Wide Open

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The FCC will structure reverse auctions carefully so all carriers get shots at federal money for nbroadband, Wireline Bureau Chief Sharon Gillett assured state regulators at the NARUC nmeeting. “The intent is to be neutral,” she said. The commission’s recent rulemaking notice nabout the Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation asks broad questions about nreverse auctions but is essentially neutral about how to hold them, Gillett said.