A Washington, D.C.-based market research firm says Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) staff is talking with TV broadcasters about buying back some
spectrum that it would then lease or auction to wireless carriers, with
the broadcasters getting in on the action.
This makes a lot of sense, particularly given the concerns the Obama Administration has expressed over the paucity of wireless spectrum, and how that scarcity hovers over the burgeoning wireless industry as mobile Internet usage explodes. According to Blair Levin, the person in charge of crafting the FCC’s national broadband plan, “The record is very clear that we’re facing a looming spectrum gap.”
To read more, please see FCC Considering Spectrum Swap Between Broadcasters, Carriers on my Technology Insights blog at BNET.
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