Dive summary:
- President Obama is set today to order the government, America's biggest user of mobile spectrum, to put unused federal spectrum back into the commercial market space.
- Obama will also announced today a $100 million investment in developing technologies to help develop spectrum sharing and other communications advancements.
- About 30 government agencies hold about 60 percent of the spectrum best suited for mobile, according to a presidential report issued that summer.
From the article:
"While Congress has authorized the Federal Communications Commission to hold incentive auctions of voluntarily relinquished TV spectrum, that auction, expected to be held in 2014, will fall short of meeting the growing demand for mobile spectrum."