Keep or Update EBS Eligibility Rules, Don't Ax Them, Advocates Tell 8th Floor
Public TV and educational programming advocates are pushing for keeping or updating educational eligibility requirements for the educational broadband service (see 1903070062). Intensive EBS use would follow from the FCC modernizing the eligibility and usage rules, rather than eliminating them,…
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and by rationalizing existing license areas along county lines, North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation, Mobile Beacon and Voqal told Commissioners Geoffrey Starks and Mike O'Rielly, recapped a docket 18-120 ex parte posting Friday. America's Public TV Stations, on meetings with O'Rielly and an aide to Chairman Ajit Pai, urged preserving existing eligibility requirements and using the priority filing windows to license remaining EBS "white space." APTS said eliminating educational eligibility requirements so licensees can sell their licenses could create hostile relationships between licensees who don't sell and the commercial operators, which provide devices, services and support, wanting to buy those licenses.