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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedBush lays out spectrum policy: President vows to stop free spectrum lunch.
RCR Wireless News, March, 2001 by Silva, Jeffrey
WASHINGTON--The Bush administration last week proposed to delay key spectrum auctions and to phase out programs designed to bridge the Digital Divide, components of the president's $1.96 trillion budget that signals the White House's desire to improve spectrum management and its intention to end corporate telecom-subsidies.
Bush's spectrum plan, which would force broadcasters to pay $200 million in annual lease fees and employ other band-clearing incentives, indicates the new White House is serious about forcing TV broadcasters to relinquish frequencies that mobile-phone carriers need for third-generations wireless systems. In previous years, similar TV spectrum fee proposals have been snuffed out with ease by the powerful broadcast lobby. But all...
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