CCA Supports FCC Vacant Channel Proposal
The Competitive Carriers Association supports the FCC’s vacant channel proposal, “which is in the public interest and provides ample flexibility for low power television stations,” CCA said Tuesday in a news release. The FCC is proposing to set side vacant…
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TV band channels in every market nationwide for unlicensed use after the TV incentive auction. “The Commission has spent countless hours engaging with both the broadcast and wireless industries to design an incentive auction and subsequent repacking process which will enable the most productive use of licensed and unlicensed spectrum,” said Steve Berry, CCA president: “The FCC’s proposed vacant channel policy clearly serves the public interest by making additional spectrum available for mobile broadband use, and it also addresses LPTV and TV stations’ concerns by extending the translator digital-transition date, allowing channel-sharing agreements and offering assistance in finding displacement channels after the incentive auction.”