{"id":18,"date":"2015-05-26T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=18"},"modified":"2015-05-26T11:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:49:25","slug":"fcc-seeking-comment-on-initial-clearing-target-optimization-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tlp.law\/2015\/05\/26\/fcc-seeking-comment-on-initial-clearing-target-optimization-simulations\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Seeking Comment on Initial Clearing Target Optimization Simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FCC has <a href=\"http:\/\/transition.fcc.gov\/Daily_Releases\/Daily_Business\/2015\/db0520\/DA-15-606A1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released<\/a> the results of several initial clearing target optimization simulations completed by the Incentive Auction Task Force. \u00a0The simulations reflect three different illustrative broadcaster participation scenarios: (1) participation between 40 and 50 percent of broadcast stations; (2) participation between 50 and 60 percent; and (3) participation between 60 and 70 percent.\u00a0 Resulting spectrum availability for the forward auction may be reviewed in <a href=\"http:\/\/thedcoffice.com\/late_releases_files\/05-20-2015\/DA-15-606A2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Appendix A<\/a>.\u00a0 The Commission anticipates that this data will enable interested parties to analyze issues relating to the selection of an initial spectrum clearing target.<\/p>\n<p>The simulations indicate the following initial clearing targets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an initial clearing target of 84 megahertz in a scenario where 40 to 50 percent of broadcasters participate in the reverse auction (Scenario 1);<\/li>\n<li>an initial clearing target of 114 megahertz in a scenario where 50 to 60 percent participate (Scenario 2); and<\/li>\n<li>an initial clearing target of 126 megahertz in a scenario where 60 to 70 percent participate (Scenario 3).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under each scenario, the vast majority of the licenses offered in the band plan associated with each clearing target are Category 1 licenses.\u00a0 The FCC also finds that in lower broadcaster participation scenarios, excluding stations altogether from the duplex gap would increase the number of Category 2 licenses and heavily impaired licenses that the<\/p>\n<p>Commission proposed not to offer in the incentive auction.<\/p>\n<p>Comments on this data and analysis are due on <strong>June 3, 2015<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not hesitate to contact TLP if you have any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FCC has released the results of several initial clearing target optimization simulations completed by the Incentive Auction Task Force. \u00a0The simulations reflect three different illustrative broadcaster participation scenarios: (1) participation between 40 and 50 percent of broadcast stations; (2) participation between 50 and 60 percent; and (3) participation between 60 and 70 percent.\u00a0 Resulting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tlp.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tlp.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tlp.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tlp.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tlp.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tlp.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tlp.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tlp.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tlp.law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}