House Communications Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., proposed an...
House Communications Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., proposed an exemption Wednesday for the government’s development of FirstNet and voluntary spectrum incentive auctions from a House bill aimed at reducing regulatory spending (http://xrl.us/bnh64e). Eshoo said the passage of the Regulatory…
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Freeze for Jobs Act (HR-4078) would delay the government’s work to implement the spectrum provisions of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, and urged colleagues to vote no on HR-4078. “With the auction of this prime spectrum expected to raise over $25 billion, passage of HR-4078 will not only delay access to this critical revenue, it’s simply bad policy,” she said in a speech on the House floor. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., said he too was concerned. “The key to the development of America’s broadband mobile devices is more spectrum,” he told us. “I called for an inventory of all spectrum including military, and I'd like to see the military get incentives in the sequestration on the horizon to get money from the [broadcast incentive] auctions to give up some of this spectrum,” he said. “Anything I can do to help spectrum, I will.”