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Telecommunications FCC maintains open stance on 700MHz spectrum
Telecommunications FCC maintains open stance on 700MHz spectrum | FCC maintains open stance on 700MHz spectrum |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 15 October 2007 | |
  
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More than 60MHz of spectrum will be freed up as a result of the transition from analogue to digital television, and will be used instead for wireless broadband. To prevent large companies from buying blocks of licences and then letting them lay fallow indefinitely, licence terms will set a series of benchmarks for coverage. Companies failing to meet the milestones will ultimately lose the rights to the unserviced areas. Smaller businesses seeking to offer wireless broadband services will benefit from the relatively small areas covered by each licence, as well as a system of bidding credits for designated small businesses. The latter scheme resulted in half of the winning bids in the 2006 AWS-1 auction coming from designated entities. The 700MHz auction is scheduled for January 24, 2008. |
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