_For Immediate Release_
Media Access Project (MAP) Senior Vice President Harold Feld issued the following statement in response to today’s FCC decision on the upcoming spectrum auction:
“The modest actions the FCC ordered today will not deflect increasing public pressure to ‘free the iPhone’ and to open wireless networks to innovation and free expression.”
“Americans will no longer [...]

MAP Senior Vice President Harold Feld participated in a live blog session on Open Left.com regarding public airwaves and communications infrastructure. The session was part of a joint effort between Open Left and Senator Dick Durbin to organize debates concerning the development of a national broadband policy.
Read the “blog transcript”:http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=430

Ahead of his live blog session on Open Left.com concerning the  development of a national broadband policy, MAP Senior Vice President Harold Feld outlined several steps necessary to create  high speed and affordable wireless broadband access.
# The federal government should examine its own spectrum holdings and open the maximum spectrum for shared use.
# Government investment [...]

h4. Dr. Gregory Rose
<p align=center>*Abstract*</p>
This study utilizes the methodology developed by Peter Cramton and Jesse A. Schwartz in their 2002 paper on tacit collusion in the PCS D, E, and Block auction to identify signaling behaviors by bidders in the AWS-1 auction and measure their effects.
The principal signaling behavior identified was retaliatory bidding, which occurred [...]

On behalf of the Campaign Legal Center, Benton Foundation, New America Foundation, Common Cause, and the UCC, Media Access Project filed comments in the recently resurrected FCC proceeding examining over the air home shopping television stations. The comments argue that the stations do not satisfy the public interest standard under which the Commission determines whether [...]

On behalf of the Future of Music Coalition (FMC), Media Access Project requested  the Commission to issue a declaratory ruling to resolve any possible uncertainty as to the applicability of the Commission’s sponsorship identification rules to certain broadcast programming carried by Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
<txp:file_download_link id=”198″>Read the request</txp:file_download_link>

On behalf of the Prometheus Radio Project and the U.S. PIRG, Media Access Project filed an informal opposition with the FCC regarding the proposed merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. The opposition argues that the merger would violate antirust law standards, undermine the FCC’s policies and goals of maintaining a diversity of [...]

On behalf of the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition (PISC), Media Access Project filed _reply comments_ with the FCC, responding to criticism of the the coalition’s proposal to promote wireless broadband competition in the upcoming 700 MHz auction. The comments point out that those opposed to PISC’s open access conditions have provided no data to substantiate [...]