AEI's Bennett Sees Positive Signs in TPI Talk on LTE-U
“Sparks” flew during a Monday Technology Policy Institute conference session on emerging issues in unlicensed spectrum, said Richard Bennett, network engineer and visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, in a blog post the next day. The breakout session on…
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unlicensed spectrum was one of the few panels in Aspen, Colorado, that was off the record to media in attendance. Bennett abided by the Chatham House rules restrictions and didn’t name who on the panel said what. Panelists included Comcast Vice President David Don; David Goldman, Democratic chief counsel for the House Commerce Committee; T-Mobile Vice President Kathleen Ham; Google government relations counsel Staci Pies; Intel Associate General Counsel Peter Pitsch; and Gregory Rosston, deputy director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. “It turns out the session was 95% about the potential conflict between Wi-Fi and LTE-U,” Bennett said. “The rhetoric on this issue has been ratcheted up so high that the session got off to a very slow start as we heard an awful lot of charges and rebuttals about the risk that some folks feel LTE-U poses to legacy Wi-Fi systems. … My number one takeaway is that the people who fear LTE-U aren’t very well-informed about how it works, and this is at least partially the fault of the vagueness of the LTE-U Forum’s specifications.” Bennett saw promising signs by the end of the panel: “At the end of the session, key players on both sides of the divide were talking to each other in a positive and constructive way, so we may just find some progress in the offing. Stay tuned.”