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Qualcomm CEO Confident Broadcasters Will Give Up Spectrum

  • B&C, Monday, November 15, 2010 12:56 AM
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs says he has "high hopes" the FCC will be able to get broadcasters to "move off" of their spectrum. He still has hopes for mobile video despite not having found the right model with FLO TV. Jacobs believes the FCC should allow tiered pricing combined with transparency to give consumers an idea of what applications are sucking up a lot of bandwidth.

He thinks incentive auctions could free up "large chunks" of that spectrum, but that more would still be needed. To back up that hopeful analysis, he pointed to Qualcomm's success in paying some broadcasters to clear off their channels in advance of the DTV transition. (Qualcomm created its FLO TV video service with that spectrum.)

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