Sen. Ted Cruz: How an expanded spectrum pipeline could lead to ‘hundreds of thousands’ of jobs

The U.S. Congress in March allowed the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to auction spectrum for broadband deployment to expire for the first time in 30 years.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over communications, telecom, broadband and the Internet, met privately with AT&T Inc. CEO John Stankey and the company’s senior leadership last week at the telecom giant’s corporate headquarters in Dallas to discuss broadband…