Without wireless broadband internet service that ITFS can provide, high-speed broadband internet access is almost impossible to receive from DSL or cable providers because of the lack of population density compared with the overall cost. This rural district has wireless internet access. The district provides internet access to families of the children they serve. Each student has been given a small handheld computer that accesses the wireless system. This allows parents without internet access in their home to email their child's teacher.
Students now have access to library resource materials and homework assignments at home.
This school district is working toward the next level of access to education, by bringing education directly into the home. If the ITFS licenses are taken away or relocated to another part of the spectrum, the work that has already gone into the transformation of this part of the spectrum will be lost. School district's technology plans would be set back years and everyone would have to go back to the drawing board. For all of these reasons, the American Association of School Administrators opposes the reallocation of all or even some of the ITFS and MMDS channels in the 2500 - 2690 MHz band and urges the FCC to move the 3G mobile services into other available spectrums. Thank you for the opportunity to submit our comments on behalf of our members.