Airwave Auction Should Fund School Wiring, F.C.C. Head Says

By Peter West

Washington

Money from the auction of potentially lucrative licenses to provide advanced telecommunications services should help wire schools for the "information age," the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission says.

In an interview last week, Reed E. Hundt, the chairman of the F.C.C., said for the first time that some portion of the billions of dollars that the federal government expects to raise through the unprecedented license auctions should be spent to help meet Vice President Gore's challenge to wire every classroom in the United States by the...