D.C. govt. asked FCC to clarify agency’s rules covering auctions ...
D.C. govt. asked FCC to clarify agency’s rules covering auctions of TV Ch. 52-59 to nonbroadcast users to specify: (1) Applications from public safety radio services won’t be excluded from applying for space. (2) Proposed public safety services won’t…
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be required to bid for frequency at auction. As precedent, D.C. cited U.S. Appeals Court, D.C., ruling that noncommercial stations wouldn’t have to participate in competitive bidding. D.C. said it used wired Centrex switches for internal communications but it might want to use wireless systems, “not connected to the public switched telephone network,” in future. D.C. govt. said it filed for itself, but also “having in mind the potential interests of other public safety radio licensees.”