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 PRESS  STATEMENT  OF  CHAIRMAN  MICHAEL  K.  POWELL 
 Re:  Spectrum  Policy  Task  Force  Report 
 Last  June  I  announced  the  creation  of  the  Spectrum  Policy  Task  Force,  an  effort  to  take  a  fresh  look  at  the  Commission’s  spectrum  allocation  and  management  policy. 
 Since  its  inception,  the  Task  Force  has  issued  a  groundbreaking  Report  that  proposed  recommendations  about  ways  to  revise  the  FCC’s  spectrum  management  policies  and 
 practices.  Today,  the  Task  Force  reported  on  the  accomplishments  and  status  of  those  recommendations  and  highlighted  the  ongoing  and  future  spectrum  policy  reform 
 initiatives  that  are  underway  at  the  Commission.  As  promised,  this  is  not  a  Report  that  has  gathered  dust  on  a  shelf.  Rather,  the  Spectrum  Policy  Task  Force  Report  has 
 provided  the  intellectual  and  policy  foundation  for  the  Commission’s  spectrum  work. 
 The  Spectrum  Policy  Task  Force  Report  has  demonstrated  an  ability  to  be  a  catalyst  for  significant  spectrum  policy  reform  in  the  U.  S.  and  around  the  world.  The 
 Report’s  findings,  recommendations  and  ideas  have  resonated  in  this  new,  technology-driven  global  economy;  we  can  no  longer  suffer  under  decades-  old  spectrum  policy 
 regimes  that  hinder,  rather  than  promote,  innovation. 
 The  Commission  has  considered  and  incorporated  the  Task  Force’s  findings  and  recommendations  in  a  number  of  spectrum  allocation  and  licensing  proceedings, 
 including  the  Unlicensed  National  Information  Infrastructure  (UNII)  Report  and  Order  and  the  Interference  Temperature  item  adopted  today. 


 I  am  grateful  for  the  support  of  my  colleagues  and  am  pleased  with  our  progress  thus  far  in  beginning  the  implementation  of  the  Task  Force  recommendations,  but  there  is 
 still  a  lot  of  work  to  be  done.  I  look  forward  to  building  on  the  Task  Force’s  already  impressive  set  of  accomplishments. 
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