. >> more with katrina lantos swett on s&p's -- c-span's "q & a." >> this week on "the communicators" lawrence strickling discusses the reanalize zation of spectrum. >> very quickly, if you could start "the communicators" by saying what the national telecommunications administration does, what you do, how interact with the fcc, the white house, the t.t.c., et cetera. >> certainly. we're a branch of the department of commerce, but by statute we are the principle advisor to the president on communications and information policy issues. >> now, you mention spectrum, and there was a recent spectrum report that came out where you mentioned how to free up 95 megahertz of spectrum. what is involved in that? who owns that now? who uses that now? is it unused? what will be involved in bringing that up? >> as you will recall, the president back in 2010 charged the ncia and the f.t.c. to work to find 500 megahertz of spectrum we could realoe spectrum we could realoe indicate to -- reallocate to commercial broad band use. almost a fifth of the president's. they each have 2,000 in that band. what

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