The auctioning of new radio spectrum capacity for Personal Communications Services will be one of the major priorities of the agency in 1994 to facilitate building of the information superhighway, Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt told the Information Superhighway Summit, which was held at the University of California at Los Angeles. Hundt said the Commission will be seeking to reinvent itself by cutting red tape and putting the customer first, to help private industry transform America’s communications infrastructure. He called the auction one of the most important public sales since the Louisiana Purchase by Washington of almost half the western US from Napoleon. Another priority is to implement the Cable Act fully, so that competitive prices can be set..pl 63
