Qualcomm CEO Confident Broadcasters Will Give Up Spectrum

Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs will appear on this week's "The Communicators" on C-SPAN. He has "high hopes" that the Federal Communications Commission will be able to get broadcasters to "move off" of their spectrum, that he still has hopes for mobile video despite not having found the right model with FLO TV, and says the FCC should allow tiered pricing combined with transparency to give consumers an idea of what applications are sucking up a lot of bandwidth. Saying 500 Mhz is "a lot to go get" -- referring to the FCC's target of how much spectrum it wanted to free up for mobile broadband over the next 10 years -- Jacobs said he thought incentive auctions could free up "large chunks" of that spectrum, but that more would still be needed.