Telecom industry lobbyists pushed for spectrum reform at a forum...
Telecom industry lobbyists pushed for spectrum reform at a forum Thursday afternoon of the Congressional High Tech Caucus. Co-chair Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said he hopes to push a “bipartisan legislative agenda package through” to “help and promote the high-tech…
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community and create more jobs in the United States.” Incentive auction legislation currently in the works “is absolutely needed” to improve U.S. standing globally, said CTIA Vice President Chris McCabe. It shouldn’t be a partisan issue, he said. “We obviously believe that we need to work with the broadcasters, but ten years from now, I don’t think we're going to be overly excited if we can say we have the most broadcast television stations in the United States.” With the debt limit ceiling coming up, spectrum reform represents a non-controversial way to raise revenues, said Ralph Hellman, senior vice president of the Information Technology Industry Council. The Senate’s legislative efforts on cybersecurity are “just a disaster,” he said. The Senate is “doing what the Senate tends to do because of their rules,” Hellman said. “They try to package 28 things and then dump them into one bill.” Hellman predicted that the House instead would “move a series of incremental cybersecurity reform pieces of legislation.”