Can you hear them now? Small telecoms win airwaves from FCC

A historic auction by the Federal Communications Commission offered hope to telephone companies in greater Minnesota last month, providing them with a high-quality section of the airwaves that allows them to compete with major cellular networks like never before.

The auction was spurred by the coming crossover to digital-only television in February 2009, when all analog stations will cease to function and broadcasters will abandon what's commonly referred to as the 700-megahertz bandwidth of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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