U.S. steers clear of staff-level FCC report in ITU document.(Global Wireless)

RCR Wireless News, October, 2003

Byline: JEFFREY SILVA The Bush administration dramatically reworked a key document sent last week to Geneva in advance of an International Telecommunication Union meeting this week, bowing to industry pressure by making crystal clear a spectrum report issued last year by the Federal Communications Commission does not represent U.S.

policy. The changes represent a temporary victory for mobile-phone firms, which for weeks have complained about early drafts of the U.S. position paper because they felt references to the last year's FCC Spectrum Policy Task Force report-indeed the emphasis given it-were devoid of context. The November 2002 report includes 39 recommendations for spectrum reforms, some based on market principles and technological...

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