NTIA and the FCC should take quick action to make...
NTIA and the FCC should take quick action to make spectrum in the 1755-1850 MHz band available as quickly as possible, to meet carriers growing need for more spectrum, said Tony Russo, T-Mobile vice president-federal legislative affairs, in a Friday…
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blog post (http://xrl.us/bmwqd8). Russo said it was disappointing that provisions mandating the auction of the band were stripped from recently enacted spectrum legislation at the urging of the Pentagon. “The band is significantly underutilized by the Department of Defense today, and we are confident that through a combination of relocating government systems to other frequencies (fully paid for from the proceeds of the auction) and, in certain cases, sharing the band between government and commercial users, we can make this spectrum available for mobile broadband services for the American people,” Russo said. “An auction will bring in tens of billions of dollars to the U.S. Treasury, almost twice as much as other non-internationally harmonized spectrum that has been identified for sale. And unlike the broadcast bands subject to the incentive auction provisions of the new law, the government spectrum could be brought to market in the relatively near future because of the viability of commercial-government band sharing.”