Hedgehogging: hedge*hog*ging v. Interrupting conversations in an office enviornment by poking your head over the top of the cube

What’s more fun than following an FCC auction? Why following the aftermath of an FCC auction, that’s what. Now, no one really expected the recently completed 700 MHz auction to conclude without some glitches, but the ongoing brouhaha over AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless apparently now having too much spectrum and the D Block seeming to have been jinxed before the auction even began have proven especially juicy. Here’s hoping this all gets worked out soon so the FCC can get on with planning more spectrum auctions that we can only hope have half as much intrigue as this one.
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RadioShack’s struggles continue; it seems the retailer is having trouble selling postpaid service from Sprint Nextel. And here we thought RadioShack had an iron-clad business selling remote-controlled racecars and watch batteries.
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Rogers in Canada announced it will begin selling Apple’s iPhone, which brings Apple’s flagship cellphone product to our northern neighbor. We feel we might have placed a few too many jokes about Canada in recent columns, so please insert your own joke about Canada here. Thank you.
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It seems there’s a notable and growing dust-up involving the management practices of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin. We simply can’t believe an appointee of President Bush could be accused of mismanagement.