Nextlink Opposes FCC Licensing Proposal for 28 GHz Band
Representatives of Nextlink Wireless explained in meetings with FCC staff their opposition to an FCC proposal to license the 28 GHz band on an unprecedented county-by-county basis. There's broad opposition to the commission’s “novel, never-before-tested county-based proposed licensing scheme,”…
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Nextlink said. The proposal would create “financial and technical burdens” for companies interested in using the spectrum. “Nextlink chronicled the specific financial challenges that county-based licensing would create for an operator in its position to meet substantial service requirements on a county-by-county basis,” said a filing in docket 14-177. “These costs include both capital expenditures and ongoing operating expenditures for each new site Nextlink would deploy within a county.” Nextlink said its upfront costs for each new site would include “the purchase of radios, fiber connectivity, telemetry routers, as well as construction, permitting and real estate fees -- potentially totaling in the tens of millions of dollars.”