Robocalls, Spectrum Frontiers Among Key FCC Consumer Issues, Professor Hurwitz Says
There are "much more important" things the FCC "does than net neutrality," blogged American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow Gus Hurwitz Monday. Issues to watch that more directly affect most people than does net neutrality include the crackdown on robocalls, closing…
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the digital divide and spectrum frontiers. "If net neutrality is one of the most divisive issues in communications policy, stopping unwanted robocalls is the one that most brings people together," he wrote. He called "continued exploration of the spectrum frontier" a key FCC task. "We are on the cusp of new communications technologies based on millimeter wave spectrum (that above about 15 GHz)," wrote the University of Nebraska law professor, citing machine-to-machine and IoT applications as increasing spectrum demand.