Subject:  FCC auctions off airways, sickening (Bishop).
Date:     Fri, 29 Dec 2000 054210 -0600
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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Subject: sickening
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:01:15 -0800
From: "Dr. Ivan S. Bishop" 
Reply-To: isb@forscotland.com
To: roy@emfguru.com
References: <3A03EE2E.734CEDD6@emfguru.com>

http://www2.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7B9E9A5011%2D11D2%2D488C%2D9287%2D3AB26309E952%7D

extract:
                  
In all, 87 companies have joined the bidding for more spectrum -- the
                  
airwaves that are publicly owned. Over the next few weeks, the FCC will
                  
sell off 422 wireless licenses covering 195 markets. 

                  
The auction could raise $15 billion or more, according to some estimates.
                  
The early offers, however, suggest that the auction is probably on track to
                  
raise closer to $10 billion.


Roy, this spectrum is 'publically' owned and yet the FCC, a federal agency, 
lobbied by the wireless industry, sells off what it has NO right to. We all 
end up in an ever deepening microwave soup so geeks and teens can listen 
to music, crash their cars whilst blabbing and watch very poor video on 
tiny screens.

I hope 2001 will be the year of the cancer quite frankly, and the year of 
Alberos...

Dr Ivan Bishop


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