Spectrum Policy Gets Diverse Treatment at Broadband Conference

Representatives of the cable and broadcast industries Thursday made the case for why those technologies would be key players in the wireless broadband space.
Speaking at a spectrum reallocation panel at the Minority Media & Telecommunications council’s Broadband and Social Justice Summit in Washington, NAB’s Chris Ornelas said that broadcasting could help offload wireless capacity that over-the-air broadcasters continued to serve a diverse population that should not be forgotten in the rush for “spectrum, spectrum, spectrum,” and that the over-the-air viewership was growing, not shrinking. (read more)