AT&T believes a report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science...
AT&T believes a report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on spectrum suffered from the lack of industry involvement, Vice President Joan Marsh said on the company’s policy blog Thursday. “The PCAST membership did not include…
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a single wireless carrier, a single equipment manufacturer or a single chipset maker, and the Report’s recommendations surely would have been strengthened by perspectives from the companies that are currently investing billions to develop and deploy advanced wireless networks and technologies,” she said (http://xrl.us/bni6jj). The report also “readily acknowledges the benefits that have flowed from the current exclusive licensing regime, yet gives little credit to the massive private investments that those licenses permitted -- investments that are the foundation of U.S. wireless leadership today,” she said. “Licensed spectrum offers a critical cornerstone of certainty on which billions of dollars of capex have been and will continue to be committed. The report’s preferred model -- shared, secondary, unlicensed access over a small cell network -- leaves unanswered significant questions about how that model will attract capital.” The report also puts unjustified faith in sensing technologies, before they have been proven to work, Marsh said. “In fact, the FCC has refused to rely on sensing technologies for access to TV white spaces even though that radio environment -- with its fixed high power services -- is ideal for that approach,” she said. “And while the Report cites developments in the white spaces as evidence that the technology is maturing, consumer products in that space have been long promised with limited actual delivery.” The report has been controversial since it was released last month (CD July 23 p1).