Ligado Urges Allocating 1675-1680 MHz Band for Uplink Only
Ligado urged the FCC to reallocate the 1675-1680 MHz band for shared commercial use, licensed on a nationwide basis, “but limited to uplink-only operations,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 19-116. Representatives spoke with staff from the Wireless Bureau…
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and Office of Engineering and Technology. The proposal “would allow the spectrum to be put to good use supporting 5G IoT services and be consistent with the key conclusion of the in-depth spectrum sharing study conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that it is feasible to open the band to sharing with commercial uplink-only operations,” Ligado said. The FCC sought comment on the band in 2019 (see 2006010057). Ligado said it envisions the band “being used to provide free-standing 5G IoT services to critical infrastructure industries such as electric utilities” and that it could be paired with the adjacent 1670-1675 MHz band.