Legislative Alert: D-Block Agreement Not Reached

On late 2011, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3630, the Payroll Tax Deduction Extension legislation. This legislation included the Jumpstarting Opportunity with Broadband Spectrum (JOBS) Act of 2011, which allocates the D-Block spectrum to public safety and funds the build-out of the Public Safety Broadband Network. Unfortunately, the Senate did not include this language in its payroll tax deal, so the language ultimately was not in the final two-month extension bill that was signed by President Obama.