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10 Sep 2015, 9:51 am by David Oxenford
The Incentive Auction, by which the FCC is to pay TV stations to surrender their spectrum and then resell that spectrum to wireless carriers, is to begin on March 29, 2016 (see our article here which broke that news). [read post]
16 Oct 2011, 2:27 pm by David Oxenford
The FCC has not responded officially to this study, nor has it released details of its plan for “repacking” TV stations into whatever spectrum is left after any spectrum reclamation that may occur (see NAB statement on the issue here). [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 10:01 am by David Oxenford
  Finally, he said that he hoped that parties would address whether reallocation of TV spectrum to broadband would indeed benefit consumers. [read post]
30 Oct 2012, 11:46 pm by Michael Geist
Industry Minister Christian Paradis announced yesterday that the government is "opening up unused spectrum between TV channels - the so-called "white space" - for licence-exempt applications. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 7:50 pm by David Oxenford
While the FCC has not yet started a proceeding to set rules for the auction of television spectrum for broadband purposes, the Commission is taking steps to clear the spectrum in other ways. [read post]
13 Apr 2018, 4:58 pm by Warren Kessler
  Ancillary and supplementary services are any services provided on a TV station’s digital spectrum that is not needed to provide the single free over-the-air program stream required by the FCC. [read post]
19 Jul 2017, 8:41 am by David Oxenford
Obviously, in the near future, TV stations that agreed to surrender their spectrum in the auction will get notice from the FCC to expect their payments from the proceeds collected from the wireless companies that purchased the repackaged surrendered TV spectrum. [read post]
17 May 2017, 7:21 pm by Lauren Lynch Flick
Helping to balance those restrictions, displaced stations may specify as their displacement channel the pre-auction channel of a station being repacked or which relinquished its spectrum, subject to the condition that operations on the displacement channel cannot commence until the full-power or Class A TV station currently occupying the channel vacates it. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 6:58 pm by Brendan Holland
The FCC recently revised its TV “white spaces” rules to facilitate the use of unlicensed communications devices on spectrum originally allocated exclusively for broadcast television. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 6:20 am by David Oxenford
As we noted in our post yesterday, the OMB recently approved the FCC’s forms to allow for reimbursement of the expenses of LPTV and TV translator stations and FM stations (full power and low power) and FM translators caused by the repacking of the TV spectrum following the incentive auction. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 6:52 am by Martin L. Stern
These issues and others will be examined in a special two-hour live webcast carried on Broadband US TV from 1:00-3:00 pm (ET) on April 4th. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 9:38 am by David Oxenford
This will include situations where the new, repacked TV band does not have sufficient channels to accommodate all remaining TV stations, thus requiring some stations to be located in the spectrum otherwise reassigned to wireless companies. [read post]
8 Nov 2010, 2:14 pm by Brian Hurh
  First, the Commission intends to consider an NPRM to facilitate use of the VHF and UHF TV bands for mobile broadband use. [read post]
10 Sep 2011, 12:31 pm by Rob Bratby
On 1 September 2011, Ofcom published a statement outlining its intention to permit the use of white space spectrum in some of the the bands currently used for TV (470-790 MHz). [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 9:10 am
White space devices will still need to query a special geolocation database before transmitting, in order to avoid broadcasting over existing TV channels and wireless mic users, but the FCC has ditched the expensive "spectrum sensing" tech it initially required back in 2008. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 9:15 am by David Oxenford
The FCC yesterday released a Public Notice indicating that they will be inspecting approximately 60 of the over 900 TV stations changing channels as a result of the incentive auction and the repacking of the TV spectrum that took place after that auction. [read post]
20 Apr 2021, 7:41 am by David Oxenford
  Given the compacting of the television band over the last two decades, first by the conversion to digital and then as part of the incentive auction process, there simply is not much spectrum for TV operations in most major markets. [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 7:23 am
WASHINGTON, DC - Next Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission will vote on a set of rules that will govern the auction of the 700 MHz DTV spectrum, the most important spectrum frequencies ever to be auctioned by the federal government, setting in place a process that will transform public safety communications, the way Americans watch TV, and how Americans connect to and use the Internet. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 8:13 am by David Oxenford
  Even in the spectrum used by TV stations, white spaces devices are allowed to operate where they do not cause interference to existing TV stations (see our articles here, here, and here). [read post]