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In Reply to: Does the FM spectrum have other commercial uses? posted by volunteer on January 8, 2017 at 09:01:23:
...but the big influencer is the telecom business, not the govt. The govt generates income by (repeatedly) auctioning off spectrum to big business/telecoms. Recently the FCC permitted (encouraged?) digital over-the-air TV broadcasters to allow their spectrum allocations to be put up for auction as supervised by FCC. By going dark the broadcaster gets some $$$ as does the govt. A couple local stations plan to do this soon. The driver is the wireless industry that covets the portion of the UHF spectrum currently occupied by digital TV. Apparently this range of frequencies is better able to penetrate walls and buildings than current wireless allocations. Perfect for the coming revolution of the "Internet of things".
The net result of the current alliance of the wireless industry with the FCC is that any particular range of spectrum can and will be reallocated if the wireless industry has a need for it. At the present time, the US FM band appears to be uninteresting to the wireless industry but things could easily and rapidly change. US AM band is probably safe from a wireless perspective but faces other survival challenges.
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