Fixed Wireless Can Safely Share Lower 12 GHz Band: Dish
A new analysis submitted to the FCC by Dish Network found that providers can offer fixed-wireless service in the lower 12 GHz band without causing interference to satellite operations. Dish asked engineering company RKF to find “how many customers a…
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fixed service operator could serve in a market while causing zero risk of interference into satellite customers,” Dish said in a filing posted Thursday in docket 20-443. “The answer is millions, even without taking into account vegetation, even with assuming near-free-space propagation, even without considering the dominant-path method or other techniques for nulling non-line-of-sight paths, and even without taking any of the measures that could avert interference on a case-by-case basis,” Dish said. It noted that the national spectrum strategy, released Monday (see 2311130048), cites the FCC’s look at sharing in the 12.2-12.7 GHz band. “DISH readily accepts that Fixed 5G will not be capable of serving all Americans in light of the need to avoid interference,” the filing said: “Given its 6.72 million [direct broadcast satellite] customer base, DISH takes seriously its duty to avoid interference to existing satellite customers’ services. The RKF study shows that DISH and other Fixed 5G licensees can fulfill that duty while still offering service to large swaths of the country.”