CTIA Meets With Commissioners' Aides on Rules for Incentive Auction
CTIA representatives explained its bottom-line desires on rules for the TV incentive auction, in a series of meetings with aides to FCC Commissioners Mike O’Rielly, Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel, said a filing by the association in docket 12-268. The…
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FCC should “clarify the scope of the requirements affecting 600 MHz licensees that would trigger additional inter-service interference analyses and fully disclose any potential impairment associated with this process,” CTIA said. “For example, 600 MHz licensees should not be required to conduct extensive analyses of interference effects if proposed mobile network modifications would not increase the interference potential to a broadcast station.” CTIA also said the FCC should engage with carriers and others who may buy spectrum “in an iterative, collaborative process to make sure that these affected stakeholders will be able to analyze and understand the complicated data to be provided to them during the incentive auction.” CTIA also reported on a series of meetings President Meredith Baker had at the FCC with Commissioners Mignon Clyburn, Mike O’Rielly and Jessica Rosenworcel, plus other agency officials. Baker is a former FCC commissioner. "CTIA believes that with the right framework in place, a successful incentive auction will be a win-win-win for broadcasters, the wireless industry, and -- most importantly -- consumers," said a filing on the meetings. "However, in order [to] have a successful auction, wireless companies need certainty in the auction process in order to make billion-dollar investments in newly available 600 MHz band spectrum."