Dish Subsidiary Seeks Use of Bluewater Licenses for ORAN Tests
Dish Network's Dish Wireless is seeking FCC special temporary authority for 90 days to use two 600 MHz band licenses owned by Bluewater Wireless to test and validate equipment for its open radio access network-compliant 5G network. Dish plans to…
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use the licenses to test carrier aggregation (CA) functionality paired with Dish-licensed 600 MHz spectrum, said a filing posted Thursday. Dish is “unable to adequately test CA using only its own licensed spectrum due to insufficient bandwidth in the two test markets and because the contemplated CA tests require non-contiguous 600 MHz spectrum blocks,” the carrier said.