WISPA Urges 2.5 GHz Single-Round Auction

The Wireless ISP Association urged a single-round, sealed-bid 2.5 GHz auction format, in a call with FCC Office of Economics and Analytics staff. There's “strong interest among WISPA’s members in participating,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 20-429. WISPs seek to buy licenses “for targeted areas.” The auction's “lack of fungibility contrasts with other spectrum auctions where the licenses are typically offered for an unencumbered area,” the group said, “in equal-size spectrum sizes.”