FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said Tuesday at the Americas Spectrum...
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said Tuesday at the Americas Spectrum Management Conference that the U.S. will work with Mexico and Canada as the U.S. moves forward on an incentive auction of broadcast spectrum. “We are early in the U.S. process…
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and can only benefit from regional input,” she said. Clyburn said the FCC needs to look at a number of solutions for getting more spectrum in play, including sharing and auctions. “The sobering fact is that based on today’s projections and technologies, the demand for spectrum threatens to outpace supply, sooner rather than later,” she said. “This issue is particularly acute in the United States, where networks are running at the highest utilization rate of anywhere in the world. The old ways of making spectrum available -- clearing bands and reallocating -- will not be enough. New approaches and policy tools are needed.” The FCC is open-minded about most wireless transactions as the industry changes, Clyburn said. “The FCC conditions or blocks deals that are anti-competitive, or otherwise inconsistent, with the public interest,” she said. “But we have also approved more than 1,000 spectrum license transfers, and reduced the amount of time it takes to review secondary market spectrum transactions. We've done this because a healthy, pro-growth spectrum policy requires facilitating efficiency enhancing deals."