Administration Needs To Make Reallocation of Spectrum for Broadband 'Urgent' Focus, FSF Scholar Says
The Obama administration is lagging behind the needs of industry as it struggles to make more spectrum available for wireless broadband, Free State Foundation Visiting Fellow Gregory Vogt said Friday in a paper. “The time to locate and begin reallocating…
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more spectrum for mobile broadband use is now,” Vogt wrote. The administration’s 2010 plan to reallocate 500 MHz of spectrum is out of date and work on the plan is “lagging,” he said. “Reallocating spectrum takes time, a lot of it, and therefore the government needs to redouble its efforts now to find more spectrum for commercial mobile broadband use,” Vogt said. “Because government is sluggish to respond to the market, the need should be classified and considered ‘urgent.’”