High Frequency Bands No Place for FCC Experiments, CTIA Says
The FCC should impose simple licensing rules for high-frequency bands targeted for 5G, said CTIA President Meredith Baker and executives from Verizon and T-Mobile on a CTIA video released Friday. “For us to succeed, we’re going to need simple rules,”…
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Baker says on the video. “It’s not time to experiment with new spectrum sharing.” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler promised in May the FCC will vote on final rules opening some high-frequency bands for 5G at its July meeting (see 1605030056). New America’s Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge, in particular, argued the agency should extend sharing rules developed for the 3.5 GHz band to some of the spectrum the agency is examining for 5G (see 1603010017). The 44-second video was posted on YouTube.