NTIA Portal Promotes Sharing of 1695-1710 MHz Band
In what NTIA called an “important step" forward on spectrum sharing, its Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) launched an online site that allows carriers and federal agencies to coordinate spectrum use in the 1695-1710 MHz band. Access requires a username…
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and password that must be provided by the NTIA. The band was one of three sold in the AWS-3 auction. “Although many federal incumbents will eventually relocate out of the AWS bands, relocation is not feasible for agencies that operate meteorological satellite Earth stations in the 1695-1710 MHz band,” NTIA said in a Monday blog post. FCC rules require AWS-3 winners to coordinate with these federal incumbents. “A team of 10 ITS developers, documentation experts and quality assurance personnel worked over a period of five months to develop the portal,” NTIA said. “The solution was designed to be cost efficient, modular and scalable, combining commercial off-the-shelf hardware and software into an advanced web-based architecture.”