"First of all, you have a very pro-business antitrust department right now under the Bush administration, so you could probably get this through," she said. "Whereas, if you wait for the next administration, if it is Democratic, then you are going to run into a lot more hurdles." The second, also mentioned in the WSJ article, is the imminent 700 megahertz auction that, though not yet scheduled by the Federal Communications Commission, is expected to take place in this fall. "Whoever buys 700 megahertz spectrum overlapping Alltel is going to have one less reason to buy Alltel because then they could over build Alltel with more efficient spectrum," Jaegers said. If Alltel doesn't succeed in selling itself before the auction, Jaegers said, then it would likely have to invest billions in bidding 700 megahertz spectrum.