The LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition continued to caution...

The LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition continued to caution the FCC against establishing too large a guard band between spectrum blocks in the final band plan for the broadcast spectrum auction framework. The Spectrum Act directs the guard band size “to be only as large as is ’technically reasonable’ to prevent inter-service interference,” the coalition said in an ex parte filing posted Tuesday to docket 12-268 (http://bit.ly/1fBZIdH). There’s nothing in that legislation that directs the commission to provide unlicensed advocates “with anything at all in terms of accommodation for a scale of a service,” it said. The group opposed requests by Google, New America Foundation and others for a 24 MHz to 30 MHz contiguous band for unlicensed use, it said. Any attempt by the FCC to accommodate these positions by enlarging what’s technically needed for a guard band “will by considered by the LPTV community as a direct taking of the spectrum needed to repack our vital licensed services,” the coalition said.