APTS Calls for More EBS Spectrum
The FCC should allow Educational Broadband Service licensees to apply for additional open spectrum, said America’s Public Television Stations and CPB in an ex parte filing in docket 18-120 Wednesday. “The current licensing scheme has enabled public television stations…
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to provide distance learning services to millions of Americans, including those in remote areas of the country,” APTS said in a release. The FCC should “issue new EBS licenses to qualified educational entities, most assuredly including local public television stations,” said APTS CEO Patrick Butler in the release. The "extraordinary technological achievement" of the new ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard "will allow public television stations with EBS licenses to offer extraordinary new educational possibilities,” he said.