Plea: take back DTV spectrum. (Policy).(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, April, 2003 by Hearn, Ted

WASHINGTON -- A prominent consumer group last week called on the government to seize TV broadcasters' digital spectrum as a wasting resource that should be transferred to the more dynamic wireless highspeed data industry. "It is time for the [Federal Communications Commission] to take back the spectrum and put it to better uses, like WiFi [wireless fidelity or 802.11b] and other unlicensed wireless applications, which are growing like wildfire," Mark Cooper, research director of the Consumer Federation of America, said in a statement.

Cooper's comments came as the FCC moves forward with a review of TV stations' transition to all-digital broadcasting. That process will conclude with the return of analog spectrum, which is not expected to oc cur for...

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