FCC’s Anti-Collusion Rules

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices…. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice.”  Adam Smith

In the Matter of Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions and Channel Sharing by Full Power and Class A Stations Outside the Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Context, Second Order on Reconsideration, GN Docket No. 12-268 and MB Docket No. 15-137, FCC, October 21, 2015

Guidance Regarding the Prohibition of Certain Communications During the Incentive Auction, Auction 1000, Federal Communications Commission, AU Docket No. 14-252, GN Docket No. 12-268, and WT Docket No. 12-269, October 6, 2015, para.18.  See also para. 4.

Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions, FCC Report and Order, GN Docket No. 12-268, June 2, 2014.