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Policy
Areas: • Broadband • Internet Content • Media • Minority Telecom • Statistics • Universal Service • Wireless OPAD Staff Internships Congressional Testimony Speeches Reports & Filings Archives ![]() |
OPAD Archives
MTDP Resource Center • MTDP Minority Ownership Statistics Reports - 2000 Changes, Challenges, and Charting New Courses: Minority Commercial Broadcast Ownership in the United States(PDF format) - 1998 Minority Commercial Broadcast Ownership in the United States - 1997 Minority Commercial Broadcast Ownership in the United States - 1994 Analysis and Compilation of Minority-Owned Commercial Broadcast Stations • NTIA's Minority Ownership Roundtable, July 18, 2000. Spectrum and Wireless Policy The President's Spectrum Policy Initiative Spectrum Management Reform: President Bush signed an executive memorandum on May 29, 2003 to begin an Administration initiative to reform radio spectrum policies. The goal is to better manage the Nation's airwaves, enhance homeland and economic security; increase benefits to consumers and ensure U.S. leadership in high-tech innovations. The President's memorandum established the Federal Government Spectrum Task Force, composed of representatives from a number of federal departments and agencies. In June 2004, following a series of public events and a public inquiry, NTIA issued two reports with recommendations to improve spectrum management. The Task Force released Report 1, and Report 2 included recommendations from state and local governments and private sector responders. On November 30, 2004, the President requested in an executive memorandum that the Department of Commerce submit a plan to implement the reports recommendations. Market Incentives to Increase Efficiency Spectrum is a limited natural resource for which there are many competing users and uses. Soaring demand for spectrum caused by new technologies and growth in wireless services has led to increasing competition for frequencies, sometimes between commercial providers and government agencies providing crucial public services. Market-based spectrum management employs the same tools used to allocate other resources by unleashing the value of the spectrum through a less centralized management process that creates economic incentives to encourage efficient use. The Federal Communications Commission has adopted many market-based incentives, including auctions and greater flexibility to licensees, for non-government users. Report 1 and Report 2 of the President's Spectrum Policy Initiative each recommended that NTIA:
Project G of the NTIA’s Implementation Plan for the recommendations of the President’s initiative identified the following tasks, which have been assigned to OPAD:
NTIA identified a number of projects to identify and implement incentives in its: Plan to Identify and Implement Incentives that Promote More Efficient and Effective Use of Spectrum [ PDF ] Commerce
Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC) The
CSMAC provides NTIA expertise and advice on how to enable
new technologies and services, including reforms that
expedite the American public’s access to broadband
services, public safety, digital television, and long-range
spectrum planning. Its charter states that it will act
as a liaison between the stakeholders represented by
the membership and the federal government, and it also
may provide a forum for discussing current and emerging
issues in spectrum management, spectrum policy, reform
and technology. For more information, please visit
the CSMAC
Web Page. Events and Conferences
Speeches
Wireless Communications and Radio Spectrum Policy Presidential Spectrum Reform Initiative
Events and Conferences
Speeches
Universal Service NTIA Reports related to Universal Service The NTIA has periodically undertaken reports on the issue of universal service.
Cable, Broadcasting & DTV Minority Telecommunications Development Program The Minority Telecommunications Development Program (MTDP) was established in 1978 to develop programs and policies to increase minority ownership of broadcast and telecommunications businesses. MTDP provides policy input for the development of legislation and regulations that affect minority business participation in the telecommunications industry. MTDP periodically researches and drafts reports tracking minority ownership in broadcasting. NTIA released the last report in December 2000, which was titled Changes, Challenges, and Charting New Courses: Minority Commercial Broadcast Ownership in the United States. MTDP examines trends and business opportunities in telecommunications for minority entrepreneurs. Digital Television Service The Telecommunications Act of 1996 authorized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to license part of the public's electromagnetic spectrum to thousands analog television licensees for the transition to digital television services.
NTIA Filings on Mass Media
Telephone Electronic Number Mapping (ENUM) NTIA Activities on ENUM:
Universal Service Telecommunications Statistics
Broadband
Privacy
Domain Names: Management of Internet Names and Addresses
Contact us: Office of Policy Analysis and Development National Telecommunications and Information Administration U.S. Department of Commerce 14th St. & Constitution Ave., NW, Room 4725 Washington, D.C. 20230 Voice: (202) 482-1880 · Fax: (202) 482-6173 |
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