Mike Rounds: “Both of those bands, the lower three and the seven and eight…”

“Our missile warning, missile tracking, missile defense capabilities would be severely impacted negatively. Thank you. And General Whiting, just to go back on this a little bit, what I'm concerned about is that Both of those bands, the lower three and the seven and eight bands, they're protected from spectrum auction. But some folks remain interested in shifting additional federal users back into those bans, which would then free up that portion of the ban that the federal users had been using.” (02:08–02:14)

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