Is the state about to auction off surplus educational digital broadband frequencies – which could be worth millions to telecommunications companies – at bargain-basement prices?
That’s how some critics see a move by the state Educational Communications Board to seek bids from private firms on more than 30 educational broadband frequencies the state now holds.
Former Dane County Executive and UW Regent Jonathan Barry and his business partner, telecommunications consultant Ralph Evans, have filed a formal protest to the bidding process and are seeking to halt the deal.