But David Furth, a senior legal adviser in the agency's wireless bureau, did discuss some of the differences in regulating wireless and land-line phone service.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Federal Communications Commission will meet at the end of the month to discuss rules for an auction where broadcasters will sell spectrum to wireless carriers, the agency's chairman said on Friday.
The deal is indicative of the growing interest in the wireless Internet among agencies that were founded in the 1990's to capitalize on the boom in its wired counterpart.
Indeed, that is the reason why Apple recently acquired Quattro Wireless, a mobile advertising agency.
As the group planned for a protest on Aug. 11, BART's spokesman, Linton Johnson, fearing that the rally would snarl the evening commute, proposed cutting off cellphone and wireless service, which the agency controls underground.
Accounts AT&T, San Antonio, consolidated its media planning and buying account, which had been divided among five agencies, at Mediaedge:cia, part of the WPP Group, the media agency for wireless services.
The commission rejected that request, saying that number portability is necessary to preserve consumer choice and enhance competition among wireless carriers, but the agency found justification for extending the deadline for a third time.
In a letter sent on Friday to an outside AT&T lawyer, Rick Kaplan, the head of the F.C.C.'s wireless division, said the agency had received AT&T's answers to specific questions about new economic models that the company had submitted for review last month.
With the proliferation of cell phones, pagers, satellite services and other wireless devices, the communications agency's top officials have warned that demand is so outstripping supply that it may lead to what they call a spectrum drought, making the scarce spectrum even more valuable to haves and have-nots alike.
While Galileo salesmen are promoting the wireless service to their agency prospects, it's also being promoted by Trip.com, Galileo's wholly owned Internet travel subsidiary.
