McDowell Opposes Setting Aside 700 MHz Spectrum for Unlicensed Use

摘要

FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell said he opposes setting aside a contiguous swath of nspectrum in the 700 MHz band for unlicensed use. He said at the Global Forum in Brussels nthat creating a separate unlicensed allocation in the TV band would work against efforts to nmake the white spaces available as a kind of super Wi-Fi. “At this early stage, it is not napparent that we should stop the progress well under way in the white spaces arena to create na solution for a problem -- an alleged shortage of unlicensed spectrum in the 700 MHz Band -- nthat may never exist," McDowell said.