House Communications Subcommittee Republicans want to...
House Communications Subcommittee Republicans want to bring up five central issues with the five FCC commissioners this week, based on the majority committee staff memo for the hearing: Commercial spectrum auctions, government spectrum, universal service, FCC reform and the IP…
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transition. The panel’s oversight hearing is at 10 a.m. Thursday in 2123 Rayburn. “Several fundamental implementation questions about the broadcast incentive auction remain unanswered, including broadcast station valuation and border coordination,” the memo said (http://1.usa.gov/1hKIydb). “It remains unclear how the FCC intends to craft auction rules that comport with the changes made to the Communications Act by the Spectrum Act.” The memo criticized the FCC quantile regression analysis, “aggravated by the widely-recognized need for comprehensive corrective action and the long delay in Commission action on waivers sought by many of these companies for relief in the interim,” and backed more process updates. The memo mentioned the spectrum and FCC process legislation House Commerce will consider in markup and vote on this week (CD Dec 10 p3).