Google Making Push for Robust TV White Spaces Rules
The FCC needs to ensure that three channels are available for unlicensed use in every U.S. market and the agency should designate additional channels, including Channel 37, for unlicensed use, Google executives said in a series of meetings at the…
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FCC. Alan Norman, Google principal-access strategy team and General Counsel Austin Schlick were among those who met with the FCC officials, Google said in a filing in docket 15-146. The officials also said new data shows a 40 mW white spaces device can safely operate in the duplex gap between carrier operations without causing interference to LTE in adjacent spectrum. "Common use cases add significant shadowing losses to unlicensed device signal propagation, as compared [with] idealized free space conditions,” Google said. Also, out-of-band emissions from an unlicensed white spaces device “do not affect LTE operations,” the company said. Google also discussed the possible benefits of establishing a 1 MHz separation between unlicensed channels in the duplex gap.