The text of Rural Spectrum Accessibility Act makes...
The text of Rural Spectrum Accessibility Act makes clear two senators’ goal to ensure rural and small carriers have access to spectrum. The subhead of the bill said this is “to expand wireless coverage.” Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, introduced S-1776 before…
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Thanksgiving recess (CD Nov 25 p11) with Deb Fischer, R-Neb., as its one co-sponsor. Its text and title were posted online this week. The bill would amend Section 307 of the Communications Act of 1934. Within 90 days of the bill’s enactment, the FCC “shall establish a program under which a carrier that receives a license under this section may partition or disaggregate the license in order to make unused spectrum available to small carriers or carriers serving a rural area,” the bill proposed. “Any carrier that receives a license under this section and participates in the program … shall receive a 3-year extension of the license granted under this section.” Small carriers are ones with no more than 1,500 employees, according to S-1776. Both senators are members of the Commerce Committee, where the bill resides. The bill is substantially similar to S-3516, from former Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, that failed in the 112th Congress. Klobuchar was the Snowe bill’s one co-sponsor.