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-----Original Message----- From: FCC NPRM for UHF TV Band Unlicensed Use On Behalf Of Jim Snider Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 2:10 PM Subject: [TVWHITESPACE] This morning's senate hearing on the TV white spaces and the growing political importance of 802.22... I attended this morning's senate hearing on wireless policy (see http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=1709) and thought that Kevin Kahn's verbal statement in support of unlicensed use of the TV white spaces was excellent. Here is a link to the written statement, which I have not read: http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/kahn-031406.pdf. Jeannine Kenney from Consumers Union also provided a strong endorsement of unlicensed use of the TV spaces. Even the GAO's representative, JayEtta Hecker was quite supportive of the white spaces proposal. On the other hand, MSTV and PFF came out swinging against it. But it is noteworthy that none of the senators badmouthed the white spaces proposal and Senators Lautenberg, Allen, and Kerry gave it vigorous endorsements, with even Committee Chair Stevens (who has one of the two pro white spaces bills) speaking out in favor of it. The most eloquent statement was by Lautenberg. As a practical matter, the biggest task right now is to refute MSTV's detailed engineering attack on the white spaces proposals, including a point-by-point attack of NAF's Marcus, Kolodzy, Lippman paper. This was handed out to all the senators. It's also time to recognize and respond to the broadcasters' strategy of using the IEEE 802.22 standards setting body to dilute any white spaces proposal Congress or the FCC might adopt. Given the current political situation, the 802.22 standards body recommendations have become central to the broadcasters' counter attack. On the surface, 802.22 supports the FCC's white spaces proposal. But it's a crippled version of the proposal, and that appears to be the compromise the broadcasters are now gunning for. --Jim P.S. If you haven't yet, please read the comments and reply comments to the FCC's proceeding on digital TV distributed transmission systems (docket 05-312). I believe that if broadcasters are successful in expanding their interference protection from their Grade B out to their DMA lines, it will have a huge impact on how much white space would be available under 04-186. If others think my analysis is wrong, I'd welcome your feedback. J.H. Snider, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow New America Foundation 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, DC 20009 Phone: 202/986-2700 Fax: 202/986-3696 Web: www.newamerica.net E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Book Website: speaksoftly.jhsnider.net My Personal Blog: jhsnider.net/telecompolicy -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
