Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

From the automobile to the television set, technological breakthroughs often have demanded legislative breakthroughs. This is an era of profound and far reaching breakthroughs in wireless communications. I congratulate Senator Pressler for rising to this technological challenge by providing the necessary legislative breakthrough: a set of proposals for spectrum reform that will go far toward opening the way to dramatic advances in spectrum technology. I fervently support his five major initiatives — spectrum privatization, spectrum management cooperatives, spectrum bloc grants to states, federal spectrum convergence under the FCC, and most important of all, flexible frequency sharing, as opposed to exclusive frequency assignments. A crucial complement to the Pressler proposals is is the conversion of broadcasters — now endowed as spectrum Read More ›