The FCC shouldn’t set aside any spectrum from the planned...
The FCC shouldn’t set aside any spectrum from the planned incentive auction for unlicensed use, said a coalition of broadcasters seeking to maximize the auction’s benefit to participating TV stations, in reply comments filed with the agency. “While several commenters…
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make a case for the benefits of unlicensed spectrum, the record does not justify the FCC ignoring its congressional mandate and risking the failure of the incentive auction to make this particular spectrum available for unlicensed use,” the Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition said. The group consists of the owners or potential owners of more than 40 large-market TV stations. Bringing broadcasters “to the auction table” should be the FCC’s main focus, it said. As such it should not manage the process by assigning higher value to certain stations in a market based on “any metric other than the station’s impact on spectrum clearing,” it said.