Getting more spectrum online for broadband must be...
Getting more spectrum online for broadband must be a key focus of the FCC, said Mobile Future Chairman Jonathan Spalter in a letter Friday to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. “Above all, given the unique role that mobile broadband plays for…
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increased productivity, empowerment, opportunity, and prosperity for all Americans, the FCC must maintain -- and reinforce -- its efforts to make essential spectrum resources available,” Spalter wrote (http://bit.ly/1eVTOlU). He stressed the importance of auctions, including the incentive TV auction and an AWS-3 auction. “Spectrum exhaust already threatens cities around the country,” Spalter said. “Perhaps the highest single priority of the FCC must be, therefore, to move ahead with speed, intense focus and tenacity to free up underused broadcast spectrum and bring long-allocated AWS spectrum to market for wireless use.” Spalter said the FCC “must maintain its momentum and progress” on the incentive auction, slated for next year.