FCC will be ‘bending the law’ if it allows broadcasters to take p...
FCC will be “bending the law” if it allows broadcasters to take payments from wireless carriers for vacating Ch. 60- 69, Senate Commerce Committee Chmn. Hollings told FCC Chmn. Powell in letter Wed. Hollings warned against allowing private sector…
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to set terms of spectrum transfers, saying that law required FCC to reassign 746-806 MHz band only through auction: “Allowing industry to negotiate private marketplace deals that dictate the governance and the transfer of spectrum and to earn profits on the spectrum through such arrangements is outrageous. Such action clearly violates the standards and mandates to which the FCC is required to adhere.”