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/ 03.17.2010 11:00PM
FCC Launches “Spectrum Dashboard” in Beta
WASHINGTON: The day after releasing its National Broadband
Plan, the FCC unveiled a Web site listing spectrum licensees across the
country. This new “Spectrum Dashboard” is in beta, but the idea is to reveal to
which entities radio frequencies are licensed in each U.S. municipality. The
initial version, released Feb. 17, covers licensees in frequencies between 225
MHz and 3.7 GHz, “the range of spectrum potentially usable for mobile
broadband,” the FCC said.
TV stations are allocated spectrum between 54 and 72 MHz for Chs. 2-4, 76 and
88 MHz for Chs. 5 and 6; 512 and 608 MHz for Chs. 21-36; and 614 and 698 as
well as partial blocks higher up in the spectrum.
The Spectrum Dashboard site produces the requested data in various forms, e.g.,
maps, bands, names or license category. A map search will yield license holders
in a given area. Los Angles, for example, lists 97 spectrum licensees. Among
them, AT&T has 10, Clearwire, a fixed wireless provider, has eight; Verizon
Wireless has eight; T-Mobile, four; Sprint Nextel, two; MetroPCS, two; Qualcomm,
two; satellite operators phone service providers hold eight; broadcast TV
accounted for 26; the remainder were various communications providers.
The various data forms also feature sorting by license type, including 700 MHz,
Advanced Wireless Service, Broadband Personal Communications Service; Broadband
Radio Service; Educational Broadband Service; Cellular; 2.3 GHz Wireless
Communications Service; Full Power TV Broadcast; and Mobile Satellite Services.
“The Spectrum Dashboard will increase transparency into how radio spectrum is
being used in the United States,” the FCC said. “In conjunction with the
release of the National Broadband Plan, the Spectrum Dashboard provides a
resource for stakeholders who want to participate in the deployment of wireless
broadband throughout the nation.”
The site is at
http://reboot.fcc.gov/reform/systems/spectrum-dashboard.
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