Wireless Communications Assn. International (WCA) is opposing pet...
Wireless Communications Assn. International (WCA) is opposing petition for reconsideration filed by Satellite Industry Assn. (SIA) on 2.5 GHz that Multipoint Distribution Service (MDS) and Instructional TV Fixed Service (ITFS) licensees use. SIA petition argued that fixed wireless incumbents…
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in 2.5 GHz could share bands with mobile satellite service (MSS). But WCA contended SIA had presented no technical information to Commission on how that could be done. Earlier this year, FCC denied another petition by SIA seeking reallocation of 2.5 GHz band to MSS licensees based on previous ITU decision. “SIA’s petition for reconsideration provides no justification for the Commission to now reverse field and cripple the ongoing deployment of MDS/ITFS broadband service solely to provide additional spectrum for the financially shipwrecked MSS industry,” WCA wrote. WCA said SIA relied on “mistaken” assumption that MDS/ITFS licensees would be deployed mostly in urban areas, away from MSS operations in less densely populated areas. “The Commission has already found that MDS/ITFS systems may be the only provider of broadband service in rural and other underserved areas,” WCA said.