LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition Slams Dynamic Spectrum Alliance
Dynamic Spectrum Alliance members should have bought spectrum in the incentive auction instead of now trying to urge the FCC to reserve space in the TV band, the LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition said in a newsletter Friday. The coalition has…
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been shopping around a proposal for low-power TV stations to provide the spectrum needed by tech companies such as those in the DSA (see 1708110050), and Friday's remarks were a response to a recent alliance filing (see 1708160062) on the vacant channel proposal. The DSA members want “a free lunch,” coalition Executive Director Mike Gravino said in the newsletter. He disputed that vacant channels need to be reserved for unlicensed use as DSA claimed, and urged the alliance to provide cost/benefit and impact analyses of the vacant channel proposal. “Without this analysis, DSA is not serious about their proposal. And they continue to waste all of our time and resources.” The DSA should “stop blowing smoke up the FCC’s rulemaking process,” Gravino said. “Ask not what the country can do for DSA Charter Members, ask what they are willing to do for all of us, quantify it, and do the fraking [sic] cost/benefit analysis,” he said.