Wireless companies fight to control your cell phone as rare frequency auction looms
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By Allan Holmes, Center for Public Integrity
The setting was ornate, the subject esoteric, but the implications huge.
The crowd that filed last month into the wood-paneled room 226 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building included lawmakers, lobbyists, company executives, and a few mystery guests — a roster that reflected the enormity of the issue at hand: nothing less than control of the growing wireless market and the hundreds of billions of dollars that go with it.