FCC Seeks Comment on Diversity Recommendations

The Media and Wireless Telecommunications Bureaus of the Federal Communications Commission seek comment on a recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age that the Commission consider a new preference program in its competitive bidding process to provide bidding credits to individuals and entities who have overcome substantial disadvantage.

The Advisory Committee explains that the new preference ‘‘would expand the pool of designated entities to include those qualified applicants who have overcome substantial disadvantage," noting that the proposed program is analogous in some respects to programs used by educational institutions in their admissions processes.

Comments are due on or before February 7, 2011; reply comments are due on or before February 25, 2011.