Providing access to the 14.0-14.5 GHz band for critical infrastructure industries...
Providing access to the 14.0-14.5 GHz band for critical infrastructure industries (CII) on a secondary basis would create a “serious interference threat to primary” fixed satellite service networks, the Satellite Industry Association said in a meeting with the FCC Wireless…
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Bureau. The meeting was in response to Winchester Cator and the Utilities Telecom Council’s petition to the commission to make the band available to meet infrastructure spectrum capacity requirements. Ku-band is necessary for services and a major deployment of terrestrial receivers in the band is “not compatible with the current blanket licensing of FSS earth stations,” the SIA said. The petitioning groups use an inappropriate standard for measuring interference in their claim that fixed service equipment can be deployed without interfering with FSS, the association said. There is other spectrum already allocated for fixed services that the CII can use and there is no evidence that higher frequency bands would be cost prohibitive, said the SIA.