The Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance urged the FCC to...
The Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance urged the FCC to undertake all reasonable efforts to preserve low-power TV and translator facilities to the greatest extent possible when planning and executing the broadcast spectrum incentive auction. In calculating the effects of LTE-into-DTV…
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interference, the commission “must pay particular attention to the impact of LTE interference on LPTV and translator stations,” ATBA said in response to an FCC public notice (http://bit.ly/1sfkOTL). The latest public notice sheds little light on how the FCC will use the measurements to determine the technical rules and regulations that will eventually apply to inter-service sharing, it said. Until such rules are proposed, ATBA can only limit its observations on the methodology used to conduct the measurements and validity of data presented “but cannot adequately analyze the impact and use of such studies in developing inter-service policies and rules,” it said. Cohen Dippell, a broadcast engineering firm, told the FCC that further scrutiny of TV receiver performance is required. If the FCC anticipates an aggressive incentive auction whether or not a meaningful number of broadcasters surrender their spectrum, “this will result in a large number of broadcasters being reassigned to a new channel,” it said in comments (http://bit.ly/1noMHB6). With the repacking, the to-date unrecognized interference mechanism “may manifest itself in many new repacked stations’ reception as well as existing stations’ reception,” it said. “This will result in greater loss of service and does not meet the ‘all reasonable efforts’ provision.”