Mobile Future Chairman Jonathan Spalter asked acting FCC...
Mobile Future Chairman Jonathan Spalter asked acting FCC Chair Mignon Clyburn in a letter sent Wednesday to keep wireless issues and spectrum clearly in her sights during her period heading the agency. “Nowhere in the FCC’s domain is the opportunity…
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more vast, the need so urgent, and the right policy so vital to achieving demonstrable results for the U.S. economy, consumers and the continued global leadership of American innovators,” Spalter wrote. Topping Mobile Future’s wish list is advancing spectrum auctions. “The FCC must move aggressively in its efforts to advance timely, well-executed spectrum incentive auctions and rules for the 65 MHz of spectrum that the Spectrum Act requires be auctioned and licensed prior to February 2015,” the letter said. “These rules must maximize the amount of spectrum to be reallocated and guarantee that all qualified entities are able to participate. With spectrum exhaust already threatening cities around the country, delay is not an option.” Spalter also discussed the need to repurpose federal spectrum to commercial and to look for other vehicles for making more spectrum available for wireless broadband. “As President [Barack] Obama has made clear, it is essential that excess government spectrum be reallocated to help expand mobile broadband for American consumers,” he wrote. “The FCC serves a vital role in this process. The FCC, in conjunction with NTIA, should initiate proceedings to establish commercial operating rules for federal spectrum already specified, and to identify additional government spectrum for reallocation."