U.S. Needs New Spectrum Plan, CTIA Officials Tell O'Rielly
It's “in the national interest” for “policymakers to execute a new spectrum plan to maintain the United States’ global wireless leadership position,” CTIA officials said in a meeting with FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly. CTIA wants the agency to “take up…
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this mantle and identify and repurpose over 350 MHz for licensed mobile broadband services by 2019,” CTIA said in the filing Wednesday in docket 15-125. The TV incentive auction is critical to meeting growing spectrum needs, the association said. Final auction procedures and rules “can have a significant impact on wireless industry participation and the ultimate success of the auction,” the group told O’Rielly. “It is essential that the Commission adopt an auction framework -- including auction procedures, rules to protect licensed services, rules to govern licensees’ access to newly-purchased spectrum, and protections for remaining broadcasters -- that minimizes complexity and provides potential forward auction participants with the certainty needed to make the substantial capital investments that will be required for the auction to succeed.”