joining our conversation to talk about some of those issues is a managing editor at bloomberg bna, paul barbagallo. >> hi, jot. >> guest: morning. >> guest: so one of the issues ctia has been involved with for many years is, as you noted, spectrum policy. right now the fcc is preparing for two major spectrum auctions, is the aws3 auction later this year and the broadcast incentive auction in 2015. given the recent data consumption curves, americans' insatiable appetite for mobile broadband, will these two auctions taken together satisfy demand by carriers for more spectrum? >> guest: they will help. if you go back to when the fcc released the national broadband plan in 2010, they called for 300 megahertz of mobile spectrum over five years and 500 megahertz of spectrum over ten years. these two auctions taken together should represent a very significant step toward those goals, a very nice down payment, if you will, but probably don't get us all the way to where we need to be. the auction that'll happen this fall, the aws3 auction, will bring 65 megahertz of spectrum to market, and the incentive au

. >> host: joining us is the paul barbagallo, managing editort a bloomberg. >> good morning. spectrum policy as you noted is one issue. the fcc is preparing for the aws3 auction and the incentive auction in 2015. given the recent data consumption curbs and america's appetite for mobile broadband, will these two auctions satisfy the demand by carriers for more spectrum? >> guest: it will help. if you go back to the national broadcast plan in 2010, they called for 300 megahertz of spectrum and 500 megahertz of spectrum over ten years. these two auctions should represent a significant step toward the goals, a nice downpayment, but don't get us to where we need to be. the aws3 brings 65 megahertz of spectrum. and the incentive will bring additional, but we don't know how much. something in the 86 megahertz range and you are halfway to the 300 megahertz goal for licensed mobile step. it is a significant step but not the end of the work. >> and in 2010, it was estimated the mobile carriers would need 800 megahertz to keep up. is that number still accurate? as i read studies from ci

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