House Communications SubCommittee Chair Calls Spectrum Legislation Top Priority

(Excerpted from this week's Independent Report)

Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA), the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, outlined his legislative priorities for 2010 last week in a speech at the annual Congressional Internet Caucus’ State of the Net conference. High on Boucher’s agenda for this year are passage of spectrum inventory legislation, USF reform legislation, and broadband oversight.

“We have an active year ahead of us,” Boucher said. Saying that spectrum inventory legislation was his top priority, Boucher said the legislation will help to ensure more efficient uses of spectrum and help meet the growing demand for new wireless services.

“The spectrum crunch will come soon,” Boucher told the conference. “We are going to need new spectrum within a manner of just a few years.” (Click here to read more and view this week's Report.)