The LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition continued to caution...
The LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition continued to caution the FCC against establishing too large a guard band between spectrum blocks in the final band plan for the broadcast spectrum auction framework. The Spectrum Act directs the guard band size “to…
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be only as large as is ’technically reasonable’ to prevent inter-service interference,” the coalition said in an ex parte filing posted Tuesday to docket 12-268 (http://bit.ly/1fBZIdH). There’s nothing in that legislation that directs the commission to provide unlicensed advocates “with anything at all in terms of accommodation for a scale of a service,” it said. The group opposed requests by Google, New America Foundation and others for a 24 MHz to 30 MHz contiguous band for unlicensed use, it said. Any attempt by the FCC to accommodate these positions by enlarging what’s technically needed for a guard band “will by considered by the LPTV community as a direct taking of the spectrum needed to repack our vital licensed services,” the coalition said.