The FCC’s public notice on spectrum reallocation (CD Dec 3 p1) se...

- and very little time in which to make your case,” Harry Cole wrote on the Fletcher Heald law firm’s blog. “Talk about an inquiry of staggering scope and complexity, with vast implications for the economy and the very cultural fabric of our society!” Nineteen days “hardly seems adequate for a proper, informed discussion on an issue of this magnitude,” Brendan Holland wrote on the Davis Wright blog. The issues raised in the commission’s notice “are among the most significant it has ever attempted to address,” he added. Other industry figures questioned whether the commissioners can deal before the National Broadband Plan is due Feb. 17 with any specific staff proposals for reusing TV spectrum. The FCC’s members were told about the spectrum notice and other notices for the broadband initiative before they went out, but they weren’t closely involved in their drafting by the staff, a commission official said. That’s been standard practice for such notices, agency officials said. The release of the spectrum document was delayed from November while staffers finished work on it (CD Dec 1 p1).