It’s time for industry and government stakeholders to “roll up...
It’s time for industry and government stakeholders to “roll up our sleeves, lock the engineers from both sides in a room and figure out a path forward” on spectrum reallocation, said T-Mobile Vice President-Federal Legislative Affairs Tony Russo in a…
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blog post Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bm544v). Additional bandwidth is “essential to continue offering cutting edge mobile broadband services to consumers and regaining the competitiveness of the wireless industry,” he said. Russo endorsed the Efficient Use of Government Spectrum Act (HR-4817), which he said can accommodate the needs of “current government users while carving a path forward to reallocate the spectrum for commercial wireless services.” Reps. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and Doris Matsui, D-Calif., introduced HR-4817 last week to require the FCC to pair for commercial auction the 1755-1780 MHz band with the 2155-2180 MHz band (CD April 27 p3). Stearns said the legislation would bring more spectrum to the commercial market and raise $12 billion for the U.S. Treasury while offering the Defense Department protections for reallocation. Russo acknowledged that the full clearing of the 1755-1780 MHz band may not be possible in a short timeframe and said the legislation offers a transition plan whereby all users can share the spectrum. “Only through cooperative engagement will we get to a solution that works for both current and future licensees within the three-year period remaining under separate legislation that authorized the auction of the 2155-2180 MHz band,” he said. Both the 1755-1780 MHz and 2155-2180 MHz band should “obviously” be sold together to provide “certainty to auction participants about what they are buying,” Russo said.