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"We're getting the clear message that if the supercommittee reaches agreement on a package of spending and tax cuts, the TV band auctions will be part of that," said Michael Calabrese, director of a project by the New America Foundation, ...

The White House bill fails take sufficient pains to preserve these airwaves, says Michael Calabrese, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation on tech issues. He noted that other Democrats supported keeping some of these frequencies available. ...

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.

Today,Michael Calabrese, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Wireless Future Project at New America's Open Technology Initiative, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The hearing discussed proposed legislation concerning rules for "incentive auctions" of TV band spectrum and public safety issues.

Thank you, Chairman Walden, Ranking Member Eshoo and members of the Committee, for this opportunity to testify today on the critical issue of how best to reallocate the nation’s public spectrum resource to promote mobile broadband, while promoting public safety communication and preserving the public benefits of over-the-air broadcasting.

Michael Calabrese, Director of the Wireless Future Project at the New America Foundation, praised this new wholesale market as a great way to increase competition in the mobile market. “The recent [FCC] roaming order along with the creation of the ...

There will also be a session exploring "Other White Spaces" with an update on WINNF TD-LTE White Space Project Presentation by Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation; a Presentation by Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm ; and presentation by Marc G. ...

As indicated in the initial comments filed by PISC in this proceeding, PISC supports the
Commission’s initiation of this inquiry as the first step toward fulfilling two recommendations in
the National Broadband Plan “to accelerate the development of opportunistic use technologies
and to expand access to additional spectrum.” The comments filed to date evidence widespread
agreement that dynamic spectrum access (DSA) technologies have tremendous potential to
promote greater spectrum access, capacity, and efficiency in both licensed and unlicensed bands.

Michael Calabrese, Director of the Wireless Future Project at the New America Foundation asserted that while auctions would provide new spectrum for mobile broadband, there is also a need to protect the unlicensed spectrum. ...

The Public Interest Spectrum Coalition (“PISC”) hereby responds, pursuant to Section 1.429(f) of the Commission’s rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.429(f), to the Petitions for Reconsideration of the Commission’s Second MO&O2 in the above-captioned proceedings. While each of the five petitions for reconsideration seeks to amend the rules finalized in the Second MO&O, PISC submits that none of the petitions requires any significant changes to the framework governing unlicensed operation of devices on so-called TV White Space (or “TVWS”) channels.

The Benton Foundation, the New America Foundation Wireless Future Project and the Office of Communication, Inc for the United Church of Christ (collectively, “Public Interest Commenters”), respectfully submit this reply to comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s Public Notice seeking input on the proposed Mobility Fund.

... "Apple is neither a [spectrum] licensee nor an ISP; it's not regulated by the FCC except to the extent that its devices, like all devices that radiate, need to be certified as complying with FCC's technical rules," said Michael Calabrese, director of the wireless future project at the New America Foundation. ...