Hammering out the differences into the wee hours of Thursday morning, a bipartisan, bicameral congressional committee took the historic first step toward unleashing more wireless spectrum to feed an increasingly hungry mobile marketplace.
The bill, which authorizes the Federal Communications Commission to auction off spectrum voluntarily relinquished by broadcasters, will likely be passed Friday by Congress as part of a broader package to extend the payroll tax and unemployment benefits through the rest of the year.
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