The central question in the debate is whether or not the FCC should allow a pure open incentive auction in which all qualifying companies may participate without restrictions, or whether the FCC should make the redistributed spectrum available only to those competitors serving fewer consumers.

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But these hard-won successes do not remove the real risk of spectrum depletion if the FCC does not move quickly to free more capacity.

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Last year, for example, a bipartisan majority of Congress urged the FCC not to wade in on net neutrality, at least not until Congress gave the agency authorization to do so.

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