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COPYRIGHT 2007 Crain Communications, Inc.
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA
Democrats warned FCC Chairman Kevin Martin not to cripple the open-access stipulation on the 700 MHz spectrum up for auction early next year, following the agency chief's failed attempts to revise the rule through a procedural maneuver shortly after Verizon Wireless lobbied on the issue. Martin's attempts to revise open access also preceded the agency's consideration of regulatory challenges to the ruling.
"Chairman Markey would be concerned with any ruling that weakened or diluted the effectiveness of the open-access rule,'' said an aide to House telecom subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey (D-Mass.).
Martin, according to sources, tried to revise 700 MHz open-access regulatory language but ditched the idea after meeting resistance from at least two other commissioners. Sources said Martin then turned to a different policymaking vehicle-a declaratory ruling-to modify the auction's open-access guidelines in a way that responds to concerns raised by Verizon Wireless executives at a Sept. 17 meeting with Martin, the chairman's staff and Fred Campbell, chief of the Federal Communications Commission's...
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