Spectrum Bill 'Back and Forth' Before March 9 FCC Reauthorization Deadline: Rosenworcel
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel offered limited insight Thursday into the current state of talks to resurrect a spectrum legislative package after a deal lawmakers hoped in December to include in the FY 2023 appropriations omnibus measure fell through at the…
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last minute (see 2212280044). Congress instead extended the FCC’s spectrum auction authority through March 9 as a stopgap (see 2212300046). There has been “lots of talk, lots of back and forth in anticipation of that March 9 deadline,” Rosenworcel told reporters after the commissioners’ open meeting Thursday. The FCC’s auction authority is something “we want to continue and there are lots of people hard at work on that.” The FCC’s auctions “have been a good deal” for the U.S. because “they have helped support our economic and national security,” she said: The sales “put out into the economy airwaves that have helped create so much in wireless innovation” both within the U.S. and “worldwide.”