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8 Jun 2017, 6:56 am by David Oxenford
But, in order to clear contiguous blocks of spectrum for the wireless companies who bought spectrum in the auction, the FCC not only had to buy the spectrum rights of a number of TV stations, but they also had to repack the remaining TV stations into a smaller TV band. [read post]
22 Oct 2014, 8:18 am by David Oxenford
The FCC has extended the comment deadline for ideas about the draft form that the FCC plans to use to determine the amount of reimbursement to be paid to individual TV broadcasters for changes in channels caused by the television spectrum repacking after the incentive auction (by which portions of the TV spectrum will be purchased from existing television stations and repurposed for wireless broadband use). [read post]
6 Apr 2013, 4:28 pm by David Oxenford
”  In other words, the FCC wants a stable TV database from which it can begin the process of repacking TV stations into a smaller portion of the TV spectrum to facilitate the auction of parts of the TV spectrum recaptured after an incentive auction for wireless broadband purposes. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 9:30 am
The repacking methodology the Commission ultimately adopts will be a critical tool in reorganizing the broadcast TV spectrum pursuant to the statutory mandate. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 8:13 am by Josh Wright
Richard Thaler’s NYT Economic View column features Tom Hazlett (my colleague, and former chief economist as the FCC) proposal for auctioning off TV spectrum. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 9:50 am by David Oxenford
  As we summarized in our review of the Broadband Report, the FCC suggested that as much as 120 MHz of television spectrum could be reallocated from TV to wireless broadband uses. [read post]
23 Aug 2008, 2:44 pm
The Digital Television conversion has allowed the FCC to reclaim significant portions of the TV spectrum for wireless and public safety uses - television channels above 51 will no longer be used for broadcast TV at the end of the analog to digital transition. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 7:59 pm by Brendan Holland
Based on these recent actions, it is clear that the Commission is not waiting for a spectrum inventory to assess usage and efficiencies of all spectrum, but rather is moving ahead with all deliberate speed on its TV spectrum reallocation proposal. [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 8:15 am by David Oxenford
The FCC yesterday announced a number of new regional information sessions on the TV incentive auction, by which the FCC proposes to purchase the spectrum of some TV stations to resell that spectrum to wireless users. [read post]
21 Jul 2017, 9:32 am by David Oxenford
For those stations not selling their spectrum but being repacked to accommodate the smaller TV band following the incentive auction, yesterday brought news that New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone introduced a bill in Congress, the Viewer Protection Act of 2017, seeking to increase the availability of funds to reimburse the costs incurred by TV stations being repacked following the incentive auction (as well as MVPDs who need to make changes in their facilities to… [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 12:13 pm by Douglas Jarrett
  With the concentration in spectrum holdings, market entry challenges for new, facilities-based competitors may well be insurmountable, even if TV incentive auctions free spectrum for additional wireless broadband auctions. [read post]
5 Feb 2019, 9:20 am by David Oxenford
The FCC yesterday announced that it is setting up a consumer help desk, where operators will be standing by to answer questions about rescanning the TV spectrum to find TV stations that have changed channels due to the repacking of the TV band. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 8:18 am
Google is suggesting a plan to open up the "white space" available on the tv spectrum to allow more consumers to get access to wireless Internet access after broadcasters move to all digital broadcasting in 2009. [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 9:18 am by David Oxenford
LPTV and TV translator licensees and applicants saw two notices from the FCC yesterday dealing with fall-out from the FCC’s incentive auction and the subsequent repacking of TV stations into a smaller part of the broadcast spectrum. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 9:27 am by David Oxenford
The FCC approved the first database manager for TV white spaces devices - those wireless communications devices that will operate in the spectrum currently used by broadcast television, operating on channels not in use in a given area and supposedly avoiding interference to the reception of over-the-air television stations. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 5:37 pm by Mitchell Lazarus
Not until the 2009 digital TV transition that transferred 108 MHz of TV spectrum to other uses. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 10:59 am by Jerry Brito
If they can’t have access to TV broadcast spectrum, they will get it where they can, and that’s by acquiring competitors. [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 11:09 am by admin
This is the first significant block of spectrum made available for unlicensed use in more than 20 years. [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 7:00 pm by David Oxenford
  Harry Jessell, in Friday's TV NewsCheck has a great analysis of this potential use of spectrum taxes to force the surrender of TV spectrum - called Seaside or Spectrum: It's Still Extortion. [read post]