FCC Optimization Will Prove 'Fruitless,' Says NAB
The FCC’s use of optimization in the incentive auction repacking process “is likely to prove fruitless,” NAB told Commissioner Ajit Pai’s aide Matthew Berry in a meeting Thursday, according to an ex parte filing in docket 12-268. In conducting optimization…
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after the auction, the FCC will have “already backed itself into a sub-optimal corner,” NAB said. “The Commission has unfortunately refused to consider optimization between rounds,” NAB said, saying such a solution would be more effective. “Even the best optimization techniques can do little to help” by the end of the auction, NAB said.