CEA: Reallocating Spectrum Will Endanger DTV Transition

CEA: REALLOCATING SPECTRUM WILL ENDANGER DTV TRANSITION
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Cyren Call Chairman Morgan O'Brien will appear before the Senate Commerce Committee Thursday to make a pitch for legislation that would allow the company to build a public/private broadband emergency communications network using 30 mHz of spectrum being reclaimed from broadcasters in the switch to all-digital broadcasting. But the Consumer Electronics Association and the High tech DTV Coalition have released research that argues that reallocating the spectrum would endanger the DTV transition, and would actually hinder, rather than help, improvements in public safety communications. It argues that the problem with emergency communications is not the amount of spectrum, which it says is not in short supply for first responders, but in interoperability, and that setting aside more than the 24 mHz already earmarked would leave less for the advanced wireless services the government is trying to promote. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6413851?display=Breaking+News

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