Edited sentence: In order to secure the licenses without auction, Northpoint hired a series of lobbying companies (Podesta Mattoon, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Daine Allbaugh, Livingston Group)  to get congress to force the FCC chairman's hand.MDS America on the other hand, was willing to go to auction and hired Alston & Bird to lobby against this.Robert Dole.Their head lobbyist was Ex Senate majority leader Sen