TechNet Asks FCC to Resolve White Spaces Issues ASAP so White Space Potential is Fulfilled
A group representing Apple, Amazon, AT&T and Comcast wants the FCC to address TV white spaces "as soon as possible" to "provide regulatory certainty" to TVWS operators. TechNet last week wrote all commissioners, in a filing not posted as of…
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Friday afternoon in dockets including 17-183. It said members have been "very active" pursuing rules to successfully use the band; other members include Google and Microsoft, its website said. "The FCC has opened a number of dockets making proposals and adopting rules for how unlicensed technologies can use white spaces and has acknowledged that access to a national footprint of sufficient unlicensed spectrum is needed to drive production of affordable" TVWS technology, TechNet said. It wants three 6 MHz white space channels in every market. Tech companies sought something similar, and NAB had expressed doubts (see 1708230035). “NAB opposes TechNet" because viewers could lose programming, a spokesman replied Friday. "Broadcasters have relinquished more" than half the spectrum allocated to them "in the last two TV auctions," he said: "We’re hopeful that policymakers reject giveaways of spectrum to companies who haven’t participated in either of those auctions, and who would decimate the integrity of the broadcast TV band.”