Congress Extends Spectrum Bill Talks Via FCC Stopgap, but Stumbling Blocks Remain

Wireless Future Project director Michael Calabrese is quoted in a Communications Daily article about Congress's temporary extension of the FCC's auction authority through December 16, referring to the move as a “welcome” development.

“This is a welcome” development that will “give Senate Commerce staff more time to fashion a package that includes a longer authority extension as well as spectrum pipeline provisions that can get work going on specific bands,” said New America’s Open Technology Institute Wireless Future Project Director Michael Calabrese. “We have been opposing any very short-term extension that simply loses a period of time that could be spent by the agencies studying and reporting back on what spectrum would be available” for licensed or unlicensed use.