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The main area of contention as the FCC...

The main area of contention as the FCC takes up a rulemaking on the 3.5 GHz band at Wednesday’s open meeting is likely to be the exclusion zones where the band will not be available for sharing, FCC officials said.…

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The rulemaking offers a much more detailed plan for the band, a testbed of sorts for spectrum sharing and small cells, and would create a new Part 96 to the FCC’s rules (CD April 3 p1). The FCC began its initial rulemaking in December 2012 (CD Dec 13/12 p6) and the exclusion zones in the updated proposal have changed little since then, agency officials said.