The FCC shouldn’t comply with requests from the...
The FCC shouldn’t comply with requests from the White House, Department of Justice and some wireless carriers to change spectrum aggregation rules for the upcoming spectrum incentive auction to treat low-band spectrum technologies below 1 GHz differently than high-band technologies…
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above 1 GHz, said NetCompetition.org Chairman Scott Cleland Monday in a blog post. Complying with such requests would subvert the current spectrum marketplace and would cause the FCC to regress to a 1980s “pre-auction” mentality that government rather than auctions should determine what spectrum a company received, Cleland said. “The last time the FCC imagined it could manage competitive inputs better than competitive market forces could, the entire CLEC industry the FCC heavily-subsidized went bankrupt.” The requests are also not justified from a technological perspective, since “there is nothing intrinsic about 1 GHz to justify the boundary it draws except its clean numeric appellation,” Cleland said. “That’s because radio spectrum is simply a continuum of the ever-shortening of radio frequency waves as one moves up the radio spectrum chart” (http://bit.ly/1g3Eowq).