The FCC does not have a firm answer to the...
The FCC does not have a firm answer to the question of how much spectrum a voluntary incentive auction of broadcast spectrum will eventually yield for wireless broadband, Chairman Julius Genachowski said Wednesday. By some estimates the incentive auction now…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
appears likely to reap only 60-80 MHz, because of various provisions in the spectrum legislation authorizing the auction. That’s considerably less than the 120 MHz projected in the National Broadband Plan (CD March 19 p1). “We don’t have an estimate,” Genachowski said during a press conference. “I've expressed a number of times concerns that the legislation contains provisions that will constrain us from maximizing the amount of spectrum recovered. We've been working hard on that. It’s going to be about the engineering, working within the provisions that Congress has adopted.” FCC staff “believes and I believe the law as adopted constrains our ability to maximize the amount of spectrum we can recover,” he said.