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FCC Needs To Look Hard At SMR.(Government Activity)
Wireless Week, February, 2001 by Rosenthal, Michael
While much attention has been given to how the FCC will address spectrum caps for PCS and cellular carriers, serious issues affecting competition in the SMR industry are being overlooked.
To date, asymmetrical regulation has caused competition in the SMR segment to fall behind cellular and PCS. This violates a congressional mandate that requires the FCC to enact "comparable" regulatory requirements for cellular, PCS and SMR carriers. Considering that the FCC created this inequity, it must now level the playing field.
The FCC took measures to prevent a single carrier from obtaining more than half the allotted cellular spectrum in any market area. Furthermore, the FCC's 45 megahertz spectrum cap, mandated concurrently with the rules that allocated...
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