CTIA Opposes Traditional Buildout Rules for High-Frequency Spectrum
The FCC should refrain from imposing traditional buildout requirements in the 28 GHz, 39 GHz and 37 GHz bands, CTIA said in a filing at the FCC in docket 14-177. The bands are being studied for mobile broadband as part…
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of the FCC’s spectrum frontiers rulemaking. CTIA said it strongly supports reallocation of the bands. “CTIA anticipates that millimeter wave spectrum will be used primarily for adding capacity and high-speed data, as opposed to traditional ‘macro’ mobile broadband networks characterized by seamless buildout and broad coverage,” CTIA said. “While a population or geographic area coverage benchmark is logical for ‘coverage bands’ such as the 700 MHz band, the millimeter wave bands will have uses more in line with those bands that carry substantial service performance requirements.” Imposing a substantial service performance requirement with safe harbors “is reflective of the technical characteristics of, nascent nature of the technology contemplated for, and proposed usage of, these spectrum bands,” CTIA said.