Broadcasters fighting back against wireless spectrum reform
As the wireless industry makes its case for more spectrum licenses, it’s facing stiff opposition from television broadcasters who warn that any reallocation of the band would be “terrible public policy.” TV brings “vast efficiencies to our national communications infrastructure,” eight broadcast groups led by Sinclair Media told the Federal Communications Commission on Friday, “through their ability to serve ‘one to many’ in small bandwidth segments, and those efficiencies cannot be achieved in any other way.” Ditto, add a slew of state broadcasting associations . “It would be a sad irony if, in response to false warnings of a looming broadband spectrum crisis,” dozens of them wrote to the FCC, “the Commission were to abort free, over the air, digital television service, which provides the most obvious savings of disposable income that consumers might use to adopt broadband.”
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Broadcasters fighting back against wireless spectrum reform
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