The FCC and Canadian regulator Industry Canada agreed...
The FCC and Canadian regulator Industry Canada agreed through “an exchange of letters” on 10 interim spectrum sharing arrangements covering operations along the border between the two countries. “These arrangements will aid in the deployment and use of mobile broadband…
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and improve public safety communications along the U.S.-Canada border by facilitating the efficient sharing of spectrum and avoiding potential interference,” the FCC said (http://bit.ly/YHvNpz). The agreement relies on contention-based protocols, which “allow multiple users to share the same spectrum by defining the events that must occur when two or more devices attempt to simultaneously access the same channel and establishing rules by which each device is provided a reasonable opportunity to operate,” the FCC said. An agreement on the 3650-3700 MHz band “allows wireless broadband and high-speed Internet services to coexist along the U.S.-Canada border,” the agency said. “Technical sharing arrangement reached on the 700 MHz band will allow public safety licensees on both sides of the border to fully implement their 700 MHz narrowband systems.” The agreements also cover PCS and AWS spectrum, the 4.9 GHz public safety band and spectrum used for railway communications systems.