Congratulations to the FCC, NTIA and PCAST for their groundbreaking work to harness the full potential of the airwaves.
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Today, the wireless spectrum available in the United States is controlled by both the FCC (commercial spectrum) and the NTIA (government spectrum).
Since then, NTIA has conducted reviews of hundreds of additional MHz of spectrum that could be made available for commercial use.
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Through DigitalLiteracy.gov, NTIA is making available to all Americans the methods for improving broadband adoption that are being developed by Recovery Act projects.
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The NTIA advises the government on spectrum policy but the FCC has the final word on whether LightSquared can turn on its network.
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The funds, from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) or the Department of Agriculture, are aimed at providing service to underserved communities in rural areas.
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All told, the response matches that of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which wrote a letter to the Librarian of Congress in support of extending the exemption last year.
But if the NTIA follows the recommendations of the advisory board the FCC will face stiff pressure to delay or cancel the provisional license it granted LightSquared to operate early last year.
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The White House's position detailed in this response builds on some critical thinking done by the President's chief advisory Agency on these matters: the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
ENGADGET: White House responds to petition: unlocking phones should be legalized
Back in September, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) hosted an IPv6 workshop at which I challenged industry stakeholders to develop a tool to aid businesses and focus attention on the importance of deploying IPv6 within their companies.
As a critical aspect of that effort, NTIA has been coordinating extensive discussions between Federal agencies and wireless providers that have resulted in unprecedented sharing of technical and other information that can lead to more efficient spectrum use by both sides.
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Contrary to the NTIA's recommendation, the Librarian of Congress ruled that phones purchased after January of this year would no longer be exempted from the DMCA. The law gives the Librarian the authority to establish or eliminate exceptions -- and we respect that process.
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For more context and information on the technical aspects of the issue, you can review the NTIA's letter to the Library of Congress' Register of Copyrights (.pdf), voicing strong support for maintaining the previous exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for cell phone carrier unlocking.
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So NTIA BTOP program is supporting a number of projects specifically intended to benefit Latinos by funding computer centers in neighborhoods with large immigrant communities, by offering computer training and digital literacy classes in Spanish, and by helping Latino entrepreneurs and Latino-owned small businesses get established online.
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NTIA, in collaboration with the Census Bureau, conducts some of the most extensive survey work on broadband adoption trends in the U.S. Our most recent survey, in October of 2010, found that 72 percent of White households nationwide subscribed to broadband, compared with only 57 percent of Hispanic households.
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