Broadcasters appear to have dodged a bullet with Congress' deal to raise the debt ceiling. The pact has no provision for voluntary spectrum auctions, despite the appeal of such sales as a source of billions in revenue. But it was close.
The news came via a tweet from Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., who tweeted that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had taken spectrum out of his bill: "Even Leader Reid had to dump bad spectrum policy from his bill.
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