700 MHz auction set for January 16, 2008

The date has finally been set: The FCC will auction the 700 MHz band currently used by analog television on January 16 of next year. That's the day that the wireless communications market gets a bit bigger as the most significant RF land rush since the original cellular phone auctions gets underway. The new band will be somewhat open, though not nearly as open as Google 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 at NetworkWorld