Equipment Makers Lobby for Spectrum for Wireless Smart-Grid Technologies

摘要

The U.S. should find commercial spectrum to promote mobile smart-grid technologies, nwireless manufacturers said at a Hill briefing held by the Telecommunications Industry nAssociation. Spectrum is critical to new cellphone apps to help users conserve energy, said nJason Scism, a Research In Motion lobbyist and former aide to Rep. Darrell Issa, nR-Calif. “More spectrum and allowing that spectrum to be used by marketplace demand nwould go a long way” to spurring smart-grid growth, agreed Qualcomm Vice President Dean nBrenner. “Cellular networks are very well situated” to provide the communications platform for nthe smart grid, he said.