NTIA formally recommended that the FCC reallocate the 1695-1710 MHz...
NTIA formally recommended that the FCC reallocate the 1695-1710 MHz band for commercial use, in a report released by NTIA Tuesday. Last year’s spectrum law required NTIA to identify 15 MHz between 1675 MHz and 1710 MHz for reallocation from…
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federal use to non-federal use. “This recommendation reaffirms NTIA’s January 2011 (CD Jan 20/11 p12) conclusion that the FCC should repurpose the 1695-1710 MHz band for wireless broadband use on a shared basis,” NTIA said (http://1.usa.gov/Vu1cdK). The report said the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee likely will recommend “a regulatory framework for sharing in the 1695-1710 MHz band that will allow flexibility for and coordination of actual commercial system implementation within the protection zones around federal meteorological-satellite receive sites” at its February meeting. “NTIA will assess the final CSMAC recommendations and provide additional information to the FCC that will be used in the rulemaking proceeding called for” by the spectrum law, NTIA said. CSMAC is scheduled to meet Thursday.