A New National Broadband Plan
James Goodmon, President & CEO of Capital Broadcasting Co. has introduced a new proposal for the National Broadband Plan to Chairman Julius Genachowski and the Federal Communications Commission. Goodmon claims that part of the current NBP that will reclaim and auction spectrum will produce only one time financial gains for the FCC and that ultimately the plan will not provide enough bandwidth for future wireless video needs.
Instead, Goodmon’s plan Wireless Internet Service Providers would use broadcasting technology within their networks. Because video is the culprit of chewing up large amounts of bandwidth, the WISPs would design their networks to hand off any large simultaneous requests for video through the broadcasting technology and hand that traffic over to broadcasters who would then send it to mobile devices.
Additionally, it is being argued that this plan provides the FCC a better financial incentive. Current rules allow ancillary use of public spectrum. This means that any revenue made by broadcasters for providing this type of service to WISPs like T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, etc would incur a 5% fee to the FCC. The long term profitability of the plan for the FCC could exceed even the billions expected to by made by spectrum auctions.
[Cross-posted at Digital Society]
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