Article: 700 MHz: Not over til it's over; C-Block petitions, D-Block reconsideration in play.(Upfront)

Byline: JEFFREY SILVA

The 700 MHz auction ended two months ago, but you'd never know it.

Few things rarely are settled in official Washington. The Federal Communications Commission this week plans to launch a rulemaking to consider changes to the D Block. The national public-safety/commercial licensee was stranded in the 700 MHz auction after no company came close to bidding the minimum $1.3 billion for it. Up for review are the reserve price, penalties for failing to reach a network-sharing agreement with the public-safety broadband licensee and other rules that critics claim are unclear and skewed too much in public-safety's favor.

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