[opendtv] Re: Opinion: Putting A Price Tag On TV Spectrum
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:10:08 -0600
Dan Grimes wrote:
> "Thomas Hazlett is professor of law and economics at George
> Mason University. He formerly was chief economist of the FCC."
>
> There appears to be irony here. Does this mean he wasn't taken
> seriously while part of the FCC, or is this a new opinion for
> Prof. Hazlett?
Not sure what you mean. I think that shifting RF spectrum from TV to other uses
has been a very long term trend at the FCC. In fact, the justification for the
FCC pushing the analog TV switchoff was just this. Putting the TV spectrum,
some of it, to other uses. So aside from some specific suggestions for carrying
out this policy, what Hazlett wrote was not unexpected from the FCC, IMO.
Examples from past FCCs are reassigning the 800 and 700 MHz bands, and the use
of TV "white spaces."
Seems to me there has been renewed vigor in implementing this policy, in the
Genachowski FCC, to respond to the Congress mandate for the FCC to create a
"national broadband plan." That's just a matter of degree, though.
I didn't see anything new in the article, actually. Even the idea of paying off
broadcasters for the spectrum on which they sit had been published previously.
My question is, how will Congress view this tactic of the FCC? Will Congress
also dismiss FOTA TV? Or will they recoil at this, and tell the FCC to back
off, as they did wrt the "broadcast flag"?
Bert
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