CTIA, Other Groups Urge Action on Airwaves Act
CTIA, the Wireless Infrastructure Association and 14 other groups urged Congress Monday to act on the Advancing Innovation and Reinvigorating Widespread Access to Viable Electromagnetic Spectrum (Airwaves) Act. HR-4953/S-1682, filed in the Senate in August, aims to identify spectrum for…
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unlicensed use and free up mid-band spectrum for wireless industry purchase via a future FCC auction (see 1708010069). House Communications Subcommittee Vice Chairman Leonard Lance, R-N.J., and ranking member Mike Doyle, D-Pa., filed the House version in February (see 1802070054). HR-4953/S-1682 “provides the certainty necessary for the U.S. to reclaim global wireless leadership by establishing clear auction deadlines for substantial amounts of low-, mid- and high-band spectrum," the groups wrote the act’s House and Senate sponsors. They praised emphasis on rural connectivity, saying had its provisions “been in place, the previous two spectrum auctions alone would have resulted in a rural broadband investment of more than $6 billion," or more than the FCC Mobility Fund will make available over a decade.