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Thursday, March 11

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A Matter of Spectrum

By Brad

In a move to free up more of the nation’s spectrum for wireless use, the House Energy & Commerce Committee passed a spectrum inventory bill yesterday. Via Broadcasting & Cable:

H.R. 3125, the Radio Spectrum Inventory Act, requires the FCC and the National Telecommunications & Information Administration to conduct an inventory of how spectrum is being used, by whom and how efficiently.

House Communications & Internet Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Rick Boucher, who co-sponsored the bill, said the new four-year time frame was “in recognition that the agencies simply need time in order to perform the complex evaluations that will undermine these evaluations.”

Tags: fcc, congress, spectrum, wireless broadband

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