MAP and the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition (PISC) filed ex parte comments raising concerns about M2Z’s application to provide free wireless service on a national basis. Though MAP and PISC believe M2Z’s application could provide significant benefits to the American people, the proposed license conditions do not adequately ensure that M2Z would operate under open [...]

MAP and the Public Interest Spectrum Coalition (PISC) filed ex parte comments raising concerns about M2Z’s application to provide free wireless service on a national basis. Though MAP and PISC believe M2Z’s application could provide significant benefits to the American people, the proposed license conditions do not adequately ensure that M2Z would operate under open [...]

Together with Free Press and the New America Foundation, Media Access Project sent a letter to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce Committee urging them to ignore broadcaster spin on the FCC’s ‘White Spaces’ experiments. Broadcasters have made exaggerated claims that recent testing of white-spaces devices reveal that such [...]

In a filing with the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology, Media Access Project and the New America Foundation commended an initial report demonstrating the viability of white-space devices to detect vacant TV channels without causing harmful interference to over-the-air television viewers or wireless microphone systems. Although MAP and NAF are encouraged by the results, [...]

<p align=center>*SUMMARY*<p>
Despite the fact that the very purpose of this reopened comment period is to give parties the opportunity to refresh the record, the comments in opposition barely address the materially changed
factual circumstances which the Commission is obliged to consider in its decision in this matter.
The Commission cannot base its decision in this matter solely [...]