FCC Posts TAC's Interference Assessment Report
The FCC posted a paper by its Technological Advisory Council testing an earlier proposal for probabilistic risk analysis, looking at the protection of meteorological satellite earth stations from interference by cellular mobile transmitters in the 1695-1710 MHz band. The band…
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made up part of the spectrum the FCC sold in the AWS-3 auction. The paper finds that the methodology offers “useful insights for assessing coexistence, including the unexpected result that the binding interference constraint is not the lowest antenna elevation considered in previous analyses.” The report recommends the FCC make more use of risk-informed interference assessment. But it also said a lack of transparency can be an issue. “We recommend that the FCC encourage all parties to be as complete and transparent as possible in disclosing the methods underlying interference criteria and coexistence assessments,” the paper said. TAC approved the paper, by its Spectrum and Receiver Performance Working Group, at a Dec. 9 meeting (see 1512090067).