Dish Network opposed Sprint Nextel’s criticism of its proposal to...
Dish Network opposed Sprint Nextel’s criticism of its proposal to use the lower 5 MHz of its uplink as a guard band to protect the H block. Sprint’s concerns are procedural, not technical, “and those procedural concerns are either easily…
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remedied or wholly speculative and without factual foundation,” Dish said in an ex parte filing in docket 12-70 (http://xrl.us/bn5qch). Dish proposed giving up use of a portion of its uplink in exchange for an out-of-band-emissions limit of -30 dBm, instead of the FCC-proposed -40 dBm (CD Dec 5 p8). Dish also proposed an OOBE limit of 149 dBm for any future operators of the H block. Sprint offered no filter analysis to support “its unsubstantiated claim that Dish’s proposed OOBE limit of -49 dBm/MHz a 2005 MHz for H block base stations would increase network costs by hundreds of millions of dollars,” it said. Sprint further urged the commission to ensure that “there be no diminution or weakening of the established PCS G block interference protections” and that the H block is fully useful for wireless broadband communications, it said in an ex parte filing recounting a phone conversation with Chairman Julius Genachowski (http://xrl.us/bn5qfp). Sprint said it encouraged the commission to adopt AWS-4 service rules that will promote competitive terrestrial broadband service in the AWS-4 and H block spectrum.