National Broadband Plan (United States)
In the United States, more of the
broadcast spectrum
was needed for wireless
broadband Internet access, and in
March 2009
, Massachusetts Senator
John Kerry
introduced a bill requiring a study of efficient use of the spectrum.
Later in the year, the
CTIA
said
800 MHz
needed to be added.
David Donovan
of
The Association for Maximum Service Television said the
2 GHz band
, allocated
for
mobile satellite service
, was not even being used after ten years, and switching
to this band would be better than asking broadcasters to give up even more.
Because of the
digital transition
, television had lost
100 of its 400 MHz
. The
National Association of Broadcasters
and the
AMST
commented to the FCC that
the government should make maximum use of this newly available spectrum and
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