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The FCC Wednesday turned down a 2008 request by the Utilities Telecom Council and network security company Winchester Cator that the commission open the 14.0-14.5 GHz band for terrestrial point-to-point and point-to-multipoint communications. The order was handed down by the Wireless Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology (http://bit.ly/rLC3t). “The Bureaus disagreed with the petition’s argument that the band could be licensed without an auction,” Fletcher Heald said in a blog post summarizing the order (http://bit.ly/105qoK9). “They also had concerns about interference into fixed satellite uplinks, which are primary in the band, and expressed doubts as to whether the proposed single-entity frequency coordinator could identify and resolve any interference issues that occurred."