FCC plans to boost mobile carriers' spectrum
2012-10-05 08:56 by Daniela
Tags: FCC, spectrum, broadband
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said Thursday that the FCC will exceed its 300 MHz target for freeing up spectrum for broadband, a target the commission set in the National Broadband Plan. The agency will auction several blocks by 2015 in the AWS (Advanced Wireless Services) band, a key piece of spectrum for LTE networks. Among them is a band between 1755MHz and 1780MHz, where a commercial user would share the spectrum with current government users. "I am proud to announce today that we are on track to exceed our first benchmark of freeing up 300 MHz of spectrum by 2015," he said in a speech to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School Thursday. "I believe clearing and auctioning spectrum for exclusive licensed use must remain a core component of spectrum policy, and that we should also pursue next-generation ideas like spectrum sharing and expanded unlicensed use," Genachowski added. "As innovation opportunities and demand for unlicensed uses continue to grow, and Wi-Fi networks get more and more congested – have you tried using Wi-Fi in a busy airport recently? – we need to ensure unlicensed spectrum opportunities keep pace," Genachowski said. Read more -here-
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