Another spectrum fight, another auction?

摘要

Around the time that you read this, the FCC will be considering the issuance of a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, which seeks to change the rules for assigning 900 MHz Business and Industrial/Land Transportation, or B/ILT frequencies. By way of background, these 12.5 kHz bandwidth channels have been available to non-specialized mobile radio (SMR) licensees for more than a decade. While most of the channels are used in the Top 20 major urban areas, there are many channels available in smaller markets. The original 800 MHz Consensus Plan called for Nextel to give back its 900 MHz SMR channels, which are interspersed with these B/ILT channels, and an incentive (in the form of doubling of spectrum) was to be given to 800 MHz B/ILT licensees to move to 900 MHz.