Microsoft Meets With Pai Aides on TV White Spaces Rules
Microsoft representatives met with Nick Degani and Alison Nemeth, aides to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, urging further action on the company’s 2016 petition seeking changes to the rules for white spaces devices in the 600 MHz band. Microsoft said then…
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the rules were “overly cautious in a number of respects that will significantly hamper consumer services.” In the latest filing, in docket 14-165, Microsoft said the FCC should “adopt policies that efficiently use spectrum resources throughout the 600 MHz band, permitting White Spaces technologies to improve broadband access in rural communities.” Former Commissioner Robert McDowell, now at Cooley, also represented Microsoft at the meeting.