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CWA Endorses Rockefeller's D-Block BillBy Juliana Gruenwald
November 4, 2010 | 5:44 PM
 Share The Communications Workers of America have come out in favor of legislation that would reallocate to public safety officials a controversial chunk of spectrum that the Federal Communications Commission plans to auction to commercial bidders.


The legislation offered by Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller, D-W.Va., would reallocate the D-block of spectrum to public safety officials for an interoperable public safety communications network. It also would direct the FCC to establish standards that allow public safety officials, when not using the network, to lease capacity on a secondary, but preemptible basis, to commercial users or others. ...