Government agencies have been willing to be more...
Government agencies have been willing to be more forthcoming than before on spectrum questions, House Commerce Committee Majority Chief Counsel David Redl said Thursday during a Mobile Future forum (see related story). Redl said he and other committee staffers were…
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tasked by their bosses to meet regularly with NTIA, the FCC and Department of Defense on the AWS-3 band, which is to be cleared of users to be sold to wireless carriers in an auction later this year. “I think we have made significant progress,” he said. “All the agencies have been very responsive to the concerns of Capitol Hill.” Shawn Chang, senior Democratic communications counsel to the House Commerce Committee, also said he’s pleased with the progress made. “We are entering this extremely crucial period,” he said. “We really need the agencies to work together with the industry in providing enough information so that interested bidders can evaluate this spectrum."