The New America Foundation suggests some major changes in spectrum...
The New America Foundation suggests some major changes in spectrum policy as part of a policy paper. “Public Media, Spectrum Policy, and Rethinking Public Interest Obligations for the 21st Century,” considers “reforms and innovations in spectrum policy that would enable…
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and sustain an expanded public media to better support quality news, journalism, education, arts, and civic information in the 21st century,” the paper said (http://xrl.us/bncjnt). Among proposals are “supplementing ill-enforced public interest obligations on commercial broadcasters with spectrum license fees that could support multi-platform public media,” getting rid of spectrum auctions in favor of a fee system supporting public media and “requiring spectrum licensees for mobile broadband to adhere to non-discrimination rules for Internet content, applications, and services.” CTIA wasn’t impressed. “In the interest of saving you the time it takes to read the paper, so you can put your time to more productive use or just enjoy the day, the punch line is this: NAF and its backers want to expand the scope of the regulatory state in a broad and radical way,” said Jot Carpenter, CTIA vice president-government affairs. “In other words, it offers nothing new or helpful, and certainly nothing that will help advance the cause of American leadership in the broadband age."