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		<title>294 MHz and 8402 TV Channels May Be Sold, or Just Some Spectrum and a Few Channels. Stay tuned…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TV stations have long been the backbone of the American community.&#160; Marshall McLuhan said in 1964, in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : “The medium is the message.” &#160; By 1964, TV had solidly taken over the dominate role of the king of media from radio.&#160; McLuhan was writing about TV.&#160; Today, 50 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>294 MHz and 8402 TV Channels May Be Sold, or Just Some Spectrum and a Few Channels. Stay tuned…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
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		<title>FCC TV Incentive Auction: How will the spectrum be purchased?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FCC TV Incentive Auction is looming ahead.  It is the first spectrum auction in more than four years.  The last auction raised $19 billion and sold off the A, B, and C Upper 700MHz blocks.    Today, the C block spectrum is being used for LTE – a success story for the FCC and for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dec 19th TV Incentive Auction Webinar: What Broadcasters Need to Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FCC TV Incentive Auctions will turn-over broadcast TV to mobile carriers. TV Incentive Auctions are coming. Dec 19th 9am-12pm TMCnet Webinar FCC Comments are due in Jan 25 2013. TV stations and investors are scrambling. Congressional hearings are happening. &#160;TMCnet and Carl Ford’s Crossfire Dec. 19th video webinar covers Part I: The Broadcasters&#8217; Reverse Auction.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dec 12, 2012: Broadband Spectrum Rules!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 02:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[700MHz Auction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dec. 12, 2012.&#160;&#160; Today was a big day for spectrum in Washington DC (where a lot, but not all happens with regard to wireless regulation).&#160; All the FCC Commissioners testified before the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.&#160; The Subcommittee wanted to hear from the Commissioners on the upcoming TV Incentive Auction (FCC TV Auction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Broadcast TV: Incentive Auctions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 28, 2012, the FCC&#8217;s open meeting will address the implementation of the TV inventive auction requirements contained in February 2012 $150 billion &#34;Payroll&#34; bill, or the “Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012.” The Payroll legislation was amended at the last minute to require the FCC to design and hold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PCAST Spectrum Sharing: A Mobile Game Changer?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.whydom.com/2012/09/06/pcast-spectrum-sharing-a-mobile-game-changer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are about to have a Presidential Executive Order that will change our world &#8212; at least our wireless, spectrum world. Ten years ago most of us would have said that mobile can not &#8220;change the world.&#8221;  Today we know mobile is changing the world and that a major future change to the mobile ecosystem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FCC TV Spectrum Reallocation: Win-Win Plan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting in 1996, the FCC began the work of moving TV broadcasters from analog to digital TV.&#160;&#160; At the time it was anticipated that TV stations would use their spectrum to deliver additional, unspecified non-broadcast- type services.&#160; In 1998, the FCC prescribed a rule (47 CFR 73.624(g )), following the 1996 Telecom Act, allowing TV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USF Reform– Untangling the Line: Part II</title>
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		<comments>http://www.whydom.com/2011/05/16/usf-reform-untangling-the-line-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 18:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 18, 2011, comments were due for the USF Reform Notice of Proposed Rule Making and Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making.&#160;&#160; Various parties filed 130+ comments.&#160; Reply comments are due on May 23, 2011.&#160;&#160;&#160; USF reform comments were filed by ILECs, RLECs, CLECs, state commissions, fiber providers, cable companies, mobile providers, associations, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USF: Subsidizing Rural America, Untangling the Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barlow Keener</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 9, 2011, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (â€œNPRMâ€) and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on numerous proposed changes to â€œfundamentally modernizeâ€ the USF (Universal Service Fund) and another subsidy program called the â€œintercarrier compensation system.â€&#160; The USF â€œHigh Cost Fundâ€ is a multibillion dollar annual subsidy created in [...]]]></description>
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