The date has finally been set: The FCC will auction the 700 MHz band [1] currently used by analog television on January 16 of next year. That's the day that the wireless communications market gets a bit bigger [2] as the most significant RF land rush since the original cellular phone auctions gets underway. The new band will be somewhat open [3], though not nearly as open as Google [4] wanted. There are more questions than answers at this point, but at least the world knows when more answers will start to come.

For more on the FCC auction:
- read the news [5] at NetworkWorld