FED'S TURN TO TURN OVER SPECTRUM

摘要

Having wrung out pretty much all the spectrum it can from broadcasters in the DTV transition and its plans for the upcoming broadcast incentive auction, the government is now turning on its own, so to speak, to gain even more. The omnibus budget bill getting support from both sides of Congress last week as a way to avoid a government shutdown includes the Spectrum Pipeline Act of 2015 as one of its provisions. The bill would reallocate and auction federal spectrum-the Department of Defense, for example-for non-federal use or shared use by federal and non-federal users, or a combination of those.