FCC Chair Delays Wireless Spectrum Auction to 2015

Wheeler faces big challenges and thorny issues with auction

Few are likely to fault new Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler for deciding to delay the planned auction of wireless spectrum voluntarily relinquished by TV broadcasters until the middle of 2015.

Despite the pressing need to get more wireless spectrum into the market to satisfy mobile-hungry consumers, the original 2014 deadline—set by former chairman Julius Genachowski last year—was always seen by geeks and policy wonks alike as aggressive for orchestrating most complex auction in the world.

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