Broadcasters Didn't Drive Up Spectrum Prices, NAB Says
Broadcasters in the incentive auction​ “didn’t have price leverage” and couldn't demand or hold out for certain prices, said NAB General Counsel Rick Kaplan in a blog post Thursday. Claims that broadcasters drove up the price of spectrum are “a…
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fundamental misunderstanding of the auction,” Kaplan said. “A station that was frozen and is a provisional winner didn’t set its price, it’s simply in line to receive what the FCC was offering when the FCC determined that it didn’t have anywhere left to put the station in the new television band,” Kaplan said. “Now the wireless industry is on the clock and we’ll see what kind of demand they truly have for spectrum.” The commission said Tuesday that broadcasters would get $86 billion if all their bids were accepted by wireless carriers (see 1606290081).