Pai Calls Current FCC Most Aggressive on Spectrum Policy
Streamlined regulation and emergency spectrum authorization helped open broadband access during the pandemic, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said Thursday on a Lincoln Policy Network webinar. "There are some silver linings in this otherwise dismal time." Pai said the current FCC…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
has been the most aggressive in freeing up licensed and unlicensed spectrum, some under temporary authority. "We've tried to do everything we can to remove spectrum constraints on innovation and investment," he said. It's harder now that "we don't labor" in "untilled fields anymore." When working with industry and government incumbents to share or repurpose spectrum, Pai said he asks his staff to tell him "what the engineering is without fear or favor." When the commission makes a spectrum decision, he said, "it's one I ultimately can defend in the court of public opinion, before Congress or in court."