FCC Right to Look at Some EBS Licensees, AEI Scholar Says
The FCC is right to look at whether some educational broadband service licensees are pocketing or using for political advocacy much of the money that they receive instead of for educational purposes, American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow Shane Tews blogged…
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Thursday. Commissioner Brendan Carr raised the issue before an FCC vote reallocating the 2.5 GHz band (see 1907050034). “It is questionable whether any of this is legitimate activity for an EBS licensee,” Tews said: “The regulation says EBS license recipients must be ‘an accredited institution or ... a government organization engaged in the formal education of enrolled students or to a nonprofit organization whose purposes are education and providing educational and instructional television material.’ It also notes the licensee should have a connection to the local community and neighborhood schools, with special requirements on licensees that are not themselves schools or are not local.”