Background
The surging use of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices is creating a “data crunch” in the spectrum allocated for mobile broadband. This increasing demand for data-hungry devices poses a major challenge to ensuring that the country’s wireless networks have the capacity to handle demand.
The Incentive Auction of 600MHz (UHF) bandwidth is the most ambitious spectrum auction ever proposed. Expected to generate upwards of $25 billion, valuable radio frequencies could be repurposed from TV broadcasting for the purposes of mobile broadband use. The process combines two separate but linked auctions: a Reverse Auction, which will identify a set of prices at which broadcasters are prepared to relinquish channels; and a Forward Auction, which will determine how much mobile operators are willing to pay to acquire the spectrum.
Result
Working with Computech, Inc., Emprata supports the FCC’s Incentive Auction by providing a variety of services including data management, extract/transform/loading (ETL) of data, data aggregation, data quality assurance, algorithm development, geospatial processing/analysis, data mining/optimization, and data visualization of large volumes of TV interference (TV2TV) and inter-service interference data (ISIX).
