Wireless Future Project

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Comments on 3550 MHz Proceedings

  • and Sean Vitka
March 14, 2013

The Public Interest Spectrum Coalition strongly supports the Commission’s goal to make up to 150 megahertz of contiguous spectrum available for innovative mobile and fixed broadband services in the 3550-3700 MHz band.

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Reply Comments on TV Incentive Auctions

  • and Sean Vitka
March 14, 2013

The Public Interest Spectrum Coalition (PISC) firmly believes the Federal Communications Commission can best optimize TV band spectrum for broadband deployment, innovation, job creation, consumer welfare and economic growth more broadly only by ensuring the availability of a substantial number of 6 MHz blocks of unlicensed access to TV White Space spectrum in every local market, with a portion of that spectrum being contiguous nationwide.

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Comments on Progeny Location and Monitoring Service Rules

  • and John Bergmayer of Public Knowedge
January 30, 2013

After careful review, the Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge believe that it appears likely that the operation of Progeny’s system would adversely impact the operational performance of unlicensed smart grid and broadband wireless devices. The test results suggest potentially devastating consequences for unlicensed use of the only contiguous

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Comments on TV Incentive Auctions

  • and Sean Vitka
January 28, 2013

The Open Technology Institute and the Wireless Future Project at the New America Foundation, Consumer Federation of America, Public Knowledge and the National Hispanic Media Coalition (collectively, the “Public Interest Spectrum Coalition” or “PISC”) submitted these comments in response to the Public Notice released by the Federal Communications Commission regarding: "Expanding the Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive Auctions".

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Comments on Interoperability of 700 MHz spectrum band

  • By Consumers Union, Public Knowledge, New America Foundation, Free Press
June 4, 2012

In this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the Commission seeks to promote interoperability in the lower 700 MHz band. The Commission must act swiftly to require interoperability and compliance with that mandate. Quick action by the Commission will ensure that a competitive market can evolve and provide consumers with more choices for wireless services and devices.

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Reply Comments on DISH Network Spectrum License Grant

June 4, 2012

As stated in the initial Comments filed by the Public Interest Organizations in this proceeding, Wall Street analysts estimate the incremental value of the cost-free AWS-4 license grant proposed in the NPRM to be on the order of $4 to $6 billion. Despite the enormous market value of this Federal grant, the Commission proposes no set of conditions comparable to those associated with the LightSquared authorizations.

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The Most Expensive Internet in America

  • and Daniel Calarco and Colin Richardson, One Economy Foundation
May 24, 2012

The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and One Economy, a global nonprofit that helps low-income people gain access to broadband connections, have contributed to the creation of the national broadband map by surveying America’s Pacific Island territories: Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas Islands (NMI). In the process, we discovered that a combination of high prices and slow download speeds give our nation’s Pacific territories the dubious distinction of having the most expensive Internet access in America. 

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Comments Proposing Conditions on DISH Network Spectrum License Grant

May 18, 2012

The undersigned Public Interest Organizations (New America Foundation, Public Knowledge and Consumers Union) welcome the Commission’s effort to reallocate fallow Mobile Satellite Spectrum for more fully flexible licensing in a manner that holds the potential to promote wireless industry competition, innovation and consumer welfare.

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Spectrum 101

May 3, 2012

Michael Calabrese, the Director of the Wireless Future Project at the Open Technology Institute, delivered this "Spectrum 101" presentation as part of a panel at Spectrum for Democracy: Securing the Gains from the Arab Spring on May 3, 2012. The presentation explains some of the technical basics of spectrum, as well as issues of regulation, scarcity, interference, and license-exempt use.

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Public Interest Organizations Support LightSquared Wholesale Mobile Network

  • and John Bergmayer, Harold Feld; Public Knowledge; Chris Riley, Matthew F. Wood, Free Press; and Chrystiane Pereira, Media Access Project
August 1, 2011

In 2010, the Federal Communications Commission approved an application by LightSquared to create a wholesale mobile broadband network by combining land-based and mobile satellite services. Subsequently, the commercial GPS industry opposed the network, arguing it would cause harmful interference to GPS devices. In response to a request for comments about the report of the Technical Working Group ordered by the FCC to study the interference issues, the New America Foundation, Free Press, Public Knowledge, and Media Access Project (the Public Interest Organizations) urge the FCC to actively intervene to broker, or impose if necessary, a plan that will not leave the L Band spectrum that LightSquared controls fallow, that will permit LightSquared to deploy its promised wholesale-only mobile broadband network on at least part of its spectrum, and that will safeguard essential GPS services.

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