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WASHINGTON (AP) - A group of U.S. high-tech heavyweights on Wednesday urged Congress to set a firm date for the transition to digital signals for television broadcasts, saying it's critical for innovation and jobs.
The High Tech DTV Coalition, launched Wednesday, includes Dell Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., International Business Machines Corp., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc.
The group's executive director, Janice Obuchowski, who has been mentioned as a possible future Federal Communications commissioner, said "we have had 88 megahertz of spectrum lying fallow," referring to a swath of the 700 megahertz band currently occupied by broadcasters.
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