Samsung Multiband Waiver Request Raises Bigger Issues: Public Knowledge
The FCC should exercise care in approving a Samsung Electronics America request for a waiver of a 5G base station radio that works across citizens broadband radio service and C-band spectrum (see 2309130041), Public Knowledge said in a filing posted…
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Monday in docket 23-93. “This proceeding has revealed an unfortunate mismatch between the Commission’s certification rules for composite devices ... and the evolution of new, multiband radio technology,” PK Senior Vice President Harold Feld said in meetings with staff from the FCC Wireless Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology, and with an aide to Commissioner Brendan Carr. Feld suggested the FCC could issue an NPRM on broader issues, use a waiver “to state with clarity the meaning of the composite system rule” or grant the waiver “under such conditions that will not create a precedent for similar multiband radio operation, and with sufficient safeguards to mitigate” interference risks. The FCC adopted the composite system rule in 1989, PK said: “At the time, a single multiband radio operating on multiple frequencies under different service rules for each band not only did not exist, but was inconceivable as anything other than a theoretical construct.”