FiberTower Warns of Threat to Fixed Service Operations in Spectrum Frontiers Proposal
The FCC must devise rules in its spectrum frontiers order to protect fixed service (FS) wide-area licenses in the 37.5-40.0 GHz band, said wireless backhaul company FiberTower in a filing in docket 14-177. Introducing upper microwave flexible use service (UMFUS)…
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transmitters in the band is a threat to FS incumbents, FiberTower said. “As amply demonstrated in the record … FS base station and remote module operations are -- from a propagation standpoint -- highly similar, if not identical, to proposed UMFUS operations,” the company said. “In other words, UMFUS is a natural and inextricably intertwined development of the FS. Thus, long-standing protections for terrestrial licensees must be preserved, if not strengthened.”