The FCC shouldn’t include the 3650-3700 MHz band in its decision ...
The FCC shouldn’t include the 3650-3700 MHz band in its decision on additional spectrum for unlicensed devices, the Satellite Industry Assn. (SIA) said in reply comments. SIA said it earlier had provided documentation that it said showed interference from…
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unlicensed devices to existing co- frequency incumbent fixed-satellite service (FSS) operations, none of which were disputed by later comments. SIA said the “impossibility of a global allocation, the difficulty in assessing interference from future fixed service networks” and “the further challenge of protecting co- and adjacent- frequency” FSS operations seemed to elicit skepticism rather than enthusiasm for that allocation. Adopting rules for the band would be difficult because operators of future unlicensed devices wouldn’t have models of expected services, undermining “any incentives to develop standards and design products for the band,” SIA said. “Within the next few months, the FCC will auction new Fixed Service licenses in the band, making the extended C-band even more intensely used than today. Let that be enough,” it said. “The FCC should not simultaneously propose adding unlicensed products into the 3650-3700 MHz band.”