CTIA Pushes for No Delays in Adopting 28 GHz Sharing Rules at July Meeting
Jockeying by fixed satellite service (FSS) operators and allies to elevate the rights of secondary satellite services are "thinly-veiled attempts to confuse and delay the Commission's deliberative process" for 5G sharing in the 28 GHz band, CTIA said in a…
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filing Friday in docket 14-177. The group said it and its members have worked with the FSS industry and made progress, but the Satellite Industry Association's push for a three-party technical meeting (see 1606020035) when FSS operators haven't been providing information requested by terrestrial wireless operators would only delay the rulemaking process. It also said the record contains sufficient information for an FCC decision. CTIA said the FCC should follow through on plans to adopt new technical and licensing rules for the 28 GHz and 37-40 GHz bands at its July open meeting that include spectrum sharing technical requirements. It said the agency should affirm terrestrial fixed and mobile services have primary status in the 27.5-28.35 GHz bands: "The secondary status of FSS incumbents is a bedrock principle of this proceeding." SIA didn't comment. In an ex parte filing in the docket Friday, EchoStar recapped a meeting between Senior Vice President-Regulatory Affairs Jennifer Manner and Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel about FSS and upper microwave flexible use (UMFU) sharing in the 28 GHz and 37-40 GHz bands. Manner said that under domestic and international tables of allocations, FSS is co-primary and satellite operators in the 28 GHz band have used that as the basis for coordinating their gateway earth stations, making co-primary protection necessary. EchoStar also said 28 GHz sharing can limit future gateway deployments outside urban cores but FSS operators need access to urban infrastructure and flexibility in earth station placement. It said the FCC needs to let FSS do good-faith coordination with UMFU operators to site earth station deployments.