FCC Outlines Band Plan Workshop

The Federal Communications Commission released more details about a planned May 3 workshop on the band plan for its upcoming incentive auctions. Broadcasters and wireless companies have been critical of that plan, so look for both to be well represented at the workshop. The FCC describes it as a day-long roundtable discussion with those stakeholders on how best to achieve the FCC's five goals of "utility, certainty, interchangeability, quantity and interoperability." The FCC says it will evaluate technical tradeoffs in its plan, alternative band plans (the National Association of Broadcasters has teamed with wireless folks on one of those), and "other proposals" by commenters.