Commissioner, Broadband Plan Author Suggest FCC Go Back to Drawing Board on Spectrum

摘要

The FCC should consider rethinking the spectrum pieces of the National Broadband Plan innlight of the experience of the two years since its release, said FCC Commissioner RobertnMcDowell and Blair Levin, who ran the plan's development. It recommended that 300 MHz ofnspectrum be made available for wireless broadband over the next five years and 500 MHz totalnover 10 years. Of that, 120 MHz is to come from an auction of broadcast TV spectrum,nprojected to take place this year and next. And 90 MHz would come from the mobile satellitenspectrum band. The plan also emphasized the importance of clearing federal governmentnspectrum for commercial use.