Google Explained TV White Spaces Arguments to FCC, Filing Shows
Google representatives explained a March report by the company that said the FCC can set aside one or more channels in every market for unlicensed use without causing harm to broadcasters (see 1603250019). A filing on Google's series of meetings…
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at the FCC was posted Friday in docket 15-146. The report said only 0.01 percent of low-power TV stations and 0.51 percent of translator stations may have to make adjustments, such as channel sharing, to continue to reach their viewers. Google’s simulation “provides the only substantial data in the record that predict the effect of the proposed vacant channel rule on [low-power] TV and transistor stations,” Google said in the filing. NAB had called the Google report “uninformed, careless and misleading” (see 1603310059). The Google representatives said they discussed Google’s simulation results with Gary Epstein, chairman of the Incentive Auction Task Force; Bill Lake, chief of the Media Bureau; and officials from the Office of General Counsel and Office of Engineering and Technology.