SAN JOSE, CA -- I wanted to draw your attention to a story in The Bergen Record by reporter Martha McKay on spectrum auctions. My colleague, Robert Pepper, is quoted in the story as saying: “The public spectrum is an incredibly important resource…It’s become ingrained into people’s daily lives — it’s one of those invisible resources like air.” McKay does a nice job of laying down the history of spectrum auctions as well as how spectrum can be used…her lead sets the story up nicely, “Dozens of companies will compete next month in a high-stakes government auction for control over some of the most valuable real estate in the U.S. But it’s not real estate in the terrestrial sense. The auction is for slices of the nation’s airwaves, otherwise known as radio spectrum. It’s what is used to operate everything from your garage door opener to your cellphone to your favorite radio station.”Read the full story here.