C-Band Alliance Says It Has Broad Support
The C-Band Alliance told the FCC its proposal has broad support. “As the record makes clear, a diverse set of entities and interests, spanning a variety of industries and immediate economic interests, have come together to support the market-based approach,"…
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said a filing in docket 18-122, posted Thursday. Supporters include carriers, aerospace manufacturers, video programmers, wireless equipment makers, broadcast station operators and free market organizations. CBA filed a report by Brattle Group’s Coleman Bazelon. A “market-based mechanism, such as the consortium proposed by the C-Band Alliance, can overcome market failures that lead to significant holdout problems, solve issues of informational complexity that lead to regulatory failures, maximize the amount of spectrum available in the marketplace while protecting incumbent operations, and ensure that the spectrum is put to its highest valued use,” the report said: “This approach, which is applicable in incentivizing incumbents to discover value creating spectrum repurposing well beyond the C-Band, fits in well with the FCC’s light-touch approach to regulating the mobile market.” AT&T said the FCC should reallocate the C band, and ensure its order would survive legal challenge. “Modify the satellite operators’ authorizations under Section 316 of the [Communications] Act to add a terrestrial use component, but specify that those flexible use rights would have to be collectively assigned, within a stated period, through an auction process in order to, among other things, fund the transition of existing C-band users,” AT&T asked. The carrier met with Chief Donald Stockdale and others in the Wireless Bureau.