The FCC and staff are actively working on the specifics of...
The FCC and staff are actively working on the specifics of the AWS-4 proceeding, and “we hope to resolve them in the future, by the end of the year,” Chairman Julius Genachowski said of Dish Network’s request to use its…
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satellite network to start a terrestrial wireless service. Freeing up spectrum for mobile broadband “has been a high priority of the commission from the moment I got here,” he said Friday during a news conference after the commission’s monthly meeting. “We're juggling many balls at the same time to do this.” There’s a particular opportunity “around removing unnecessary regulatory barriers to terrestrial or ground-based mobile use and that’s obviously something that we're seriously considering in this proceeding,” he said. Genachowski circulated a draft proposal this month that proposes rules for Dish to build a terrestrial service with AWS-4 spectrum while protecting the H block, which the commission plans to auction (CD Nov 21 p8).