The effort to build a national public safety network “will...
The effort to build a national public safety network “will be set back years, if not decades,” if Congress gives public safety the 700 MHz D-block, said former NTIA head John Kneuer. In an op-ed Friday for political journalism website…
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The Daily Caller, he urged the FCC to make good on its National Broadband Plan recommendation to commercially auction the spectrum. Congress is unlikely to act during the lame duck session, he said. “It takes a lot of money to build networks, and … the government doesn’t have a lot of it.” Kneuer said a D-block auction would raise “billions” of dollars for the U.S. Treasury, produce “billions more in job-creating private investment,” and improve homeland security. Kneuer, a senior partner of Fairfax Media, consults for T-Mobile.