The U.S. is in a “race against time” to get...
The U.S. is in a “race against time” to get more spectrum online for commercial use, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said in a Monday opinion column in The Wall Street Journal. The FCC estimates “the demand for spectrum will exceed…
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supply by 2013,” he said. “If that happens, the speed of the mobile revolution will slow down. Prices, download times and consumer frustration will all increase. And at a societal level we risk jeopardizing the future of our nation’s vital mobile Internet infrastructure, which is generating jobs and investment on a scale well beyond the first Internet boom of the 1990s.” Stephenson raised similar concerns in a speech at the Telecommunications Industry Association conference last week (CD June 7 p6) and is slated to talk about spectrum at a Brookings Institution event Tuesday in Washington, starting at 10 a.m. at the group’s Falk Auditorium at 1775 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.