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McDowell Says Spectrum Scarcity Likely for Years to Come

Cooley’s Robert McDowell told us that he agrees with comments that the government is unlikely to make much spectrum available for full-power licensed use anytime soon, beyond the upper C band and limited AWS-3 licenses (see 2512260002). "The good news…

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is that the FCC had its auction authority restored this year,” the former FCC commissioner said in an email last week. "The bad news is that carriers are going to have to wait a while longer. And once they wait, there is not a ton of spectrum to gobble up -- for years."