Dish Network rejected claims by Verizon on the...
Dish Network rejected claims by Verizon on the AWS-3 NPRM. Verizon’s characterization of the status of Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) work on AWS-3 spectrum is “entirely inaccurate,” Dish said in an ex parte filing in docket 13-185 (http://bit.ly/1eWsG1U). No…
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work is underway to develop a band class encompassing AWS-1 and AWS-3 spectrum, Dish said. Only upon agreement at the Radio Access Network 4 level “for such a work item and subsequent RAN approval in June 2014 can the band plan work begin,” it said. Verizon said it isn’t aware of studies on the impact that federal aeronautical mobile telemetry operations at 2200-2290 MHz could have on AWS-3 equipment that includes Dish’s AWS-4 downlink band (http://bit.ly/1j8BFEp). That is “irrelevant,” Dish said. “Such federal operations are only relevant to Dish’s base stations in 2180-2200 MHz.” Dish also rejected Verizon’s claim that the 3GPP hasn’t created an asymmetrical band class like the one Dish proposed. The 3GPP “already has precedent of standardizing asymmetrical combinations,” Dish said.