Dish Network cautioned that deploying high-power terrestrial mobile broadband services in...
Dish Network cautioned that deploying high-power terrestrial mobile broadband services in the lower and upper H block could create significant interference to PCS and AWS-4. Dish executives met with staff for FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, Commissioner Ajit…
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Pai and the Wireless Bureau in a series of meetings Tuesday, said an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bnshco). For AWS-4 alone, such operations “would render at least 25 percent of the AWS-4 uplink band unusable,” it said in docket 12-70. The DBS company, which awaits approval to use some wireless spectrum to build a terrestrial network, recommended deploying small cell LTE broadband in both the H block uplink (1915-1920 MHz) and downlink (1995-2000 MHz) and other alternatives to moving its uplink 5 MHz. Sprint Nextel urged the FCC to preserve the H block for wireless broadband communications, in an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bnshem). The company urged the commission to ensure that “there be no diminution or weakening of the PCS G block interference protections” established in the commission’s rules and in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project technical specifications. Nothing should be inferred by Dish or any other party “from Sprint’s silence on potential interference between Dish’s operations and BAS and government space operations at 2025-2100 MHz,” the carrier said.