Backhaul Key to 5G, CCA President Tells Wheeler
Competitive Carriers Association President Steve Berry spoke with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to make the case that the agency must address business data services (BDS) as part of a bigger push on 5G. Berry was a top lieutenant to Wheeler…
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when the latter was president of CTIA. “The Chairman and I discussed that BDS are critical inputs into competitive carrier networks and will become even more important as carriers work to densify their networks in anticipation of 5G and the technologies it will support,” Berry wrote. “Backhaul costs represent a large percentage of most competitive carriers’ network operating expenses. These costs will increase exponentially as carriers build out more cell sites to meet existing and growing network demands and to deploy 5G.” Competitive carriers rely on some time-division multiplexing services for backhaul, Berry said. "These services will have limited to no use in a 5G world. Instead, I described that carriers need backhaul capable of supporting the load that 5G will require." The filing, in docket 16-143, wasn't posted by the FCC at our deadline.