FCC’s Rosenworcel: We Need Engineers

At the IEEE Globecom 2013 conference in Atlanta (GA) on Dec 11, Federal Communications Commission member Jessica Rosenworcel offered three ideas on how to address the communications challenges ahead.

1. To get outside the box, government needs to do more work in the sandbox: she suggested setting up small-scale policy experiments in the FCC’s experimental spectrum licensing process and the nationwide transition to next-generation Internet Protocol -- or IP – networks
2. More efficient use of spectrum: We need to create incentives for
3. all users to be more efficient with their spectrum. We need to support technologies – from dynamic spectrum access to frequency agile radios to smart antenna systems -- that make this possible.
4. Sandboxes and spectrum efficiency have something in common -- they benefit from engineers: the FCC should create an honors engineer program to help recruit talented, young legal professionals.