House goes with Dec. 31, 2008, after seven hour debate on DTV.(News)

RCR Wireless News, October, 2005

Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER After more than seven hours of debate, the House Commerce Committee last week passed a bill to complete the digital TV transition by Dec. 31, 2008, and earmark $500 million for public-safety interoperability. The vote was 33-17 with Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) being the only Republican to vote against it.

Senators shot down two amendments, one that would have allocated $5.8 billion for public-safety communications and another that would have set aside some spectrum for unlicensed uses. The Federal Communications Commission is being directed to "avoid excessive concentration'' of spectrum, according to a "sense of the Congress'' amendment sponsored by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.). Eshoo earlier this year called...

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