[Fwd: PRESS RELEASE: New Paper Concludes Wholesale Access Licensing Essential to Wireless Competition]

[Kevin Purcell]

The first thing one thinks of when you see something like this is:  
"who the heck are these people" and what are they out to get.

So reading

<http://www.newamerica.net/about/mission>

doesn't tell use much except the third paragraph says

> The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, post-partisan, public  
> policy institute that was established through the collaborative  
> work of a diverse and intergenerational group of public  
> intellectuals, civic leaders and business executives.

Well, not that helpful.

Wikipedia says

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_America_Foundation>

> The New America Foundation is a non-profit public policy institute  
> and think tank located in Washington, D.C. that promotes innovative  
> political solutions transcending conventional party lines -- what  
> they call radical centrist politics. Founded by Ted Halstead, the  
> foundation aims to be non-partisan, and its board includes people  
> with a range of political beliefs. Well-known board members include  
> political commentator and Newsweek columnist Fareed Zakaria, former  
> Republican governor of New Jersey and former head of the  
> Environmental Protection Agency Christine Todd Whitman,  
> conservative philosopher and historian Francis Fukuyama, author and  
> Atlantic Monthly correspondent James Fallows,and liberal economist  
> and professor Laura D'Andrea Tyson.

Much clearer.

So back to the paper to read in context:

<http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/ 
open_access_700_mhz_auction>
<http://www.newamerica.net/files/openaccess700mhz.pdf>