Satellite/Terrestrial 5G Spectrum Issues Not Zero-Sum Game, IB Chief Says
FCC efforts at opening up spectrum toward enabling 5G aren't singularly focused on enabling mobile technologies, with it trying to clear the route for continued and expanded satellite operations, said International Bureau Chief Tom Sullivan at the European 5G Conference,…
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in prepared remarks posted Wednesday. "We do not see this as a zero-sum game." He said the FCC has used flexible sharing that promotes coexistence, citing the spectrum frontiers order allowing more flexible earth station siting in the 28 GHz band. He said the U.S. experience shows such flexible approaches should get attention at the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference. A successful WRC-19 would flow from such approaches to harmonized spectrum and a recognition that identifying bands for global use "does not have to be the zero-sum game it once was," he said. Sullivan said technology such as radio tuning ranges means global harmonization isn't limited to all regions having identical spectrum allocations.