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ARRL Bulletin 66  ARLB066
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT  August 10, 1994
To all radio amateurs 
 
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ARLB066 FCC garners award
 
FCC garners award
 
The Federal Communications Commission's ''Auction Team'' has received
the Hammer Award ''for reinventing government initiatives.''
 
The Commission said that the award recognized that the auctions
(which were for narrowband Personal Communication Service spectrum
and interactive video allocations) served consumers by licensing new
services faster, served the public by selling rights to the spectrum
rather than giving it away, and served industry by getting licenses
to those ''who value them most highly.''
 
The FCC Auction Team includes employees who worked on allocation and
auction rule making as well as the team that organized and carried
out the actual auctions in late July.
 
After 47 rounds of bidding, the PCS auction earned more than 600
million dollars for the ten nationwide licenses being auctioned.  An
interactive video spectrum auction earned an additional 214 million
dollars for 574 licenses that will be used for new broadcast
services.
 
Vice President Al Gore made the award presentation.  He said ''Small
and independent  (government) agencies have been leaders of
reinventing government.  At the FCC, which has less than 2,000
employees, reinvention efforts have moved the agency from red tape
to real results.  Employees of the Commission have set a new
standard for government performance, putting their customers, the
American people, first,'' Gore said.
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