Making more spectrum available for wireless broadband appears to be...
Making more spectrum available for wireless broadband appears to be the FCC’s top priority, Stifel Nicolaus said Wednesday in a research note. “But we are skeptical that there will be any significant spectrum auctions until late 2012 at the earliest,”…
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the note said. The 700 MHz D-block is “unlikely to be made available for commercial use anytime soon, if ever,” Stifel Nicolaus said. “There will be a big push in Congress, propelled in part by budget deficit reduction efforts, to give the FCC incentive auction authority, which could free up some broadcaster spectrum and the 2 GHz MSS spectrum, but there are so many difficult issues -- and a smaller legislative window due to the 2012 general election -- that we do not give this much more than a 50/50 chance this Congress."