Public Knowledge Wants 'Private Commons' Approach for High-Frequency Spectrum
The FCC should consider rules for high-frequency spectrum that require licensees to make their frequencies available for unlicensed use when they’re not using what they buy at auction, Public Knowledge said in a filing in 14-177 and other dockets. PK…
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officials met with Wireless Bureau Chief Jon Wilkins. “Performance obligations are a means to an end, not an end in themselves,” PK said. Traditional performance measures won’t work, but a “private commons” rule makes sense, the group said. “The physical propagation characteristics of microwave bands make traditional performance obligations difficult to enforce, and considerably less efficient than sharing,” PK said. “The spectrum has multiple uses, but any given operator will want to construct its network for a specific subset of these uses -- and that subset may not suit a particular geographic area of market. It is not merely costly and inefficient for the licensee to build out network operations to geographic areas or populations where those network operations are unsuited, it does no good to the population now ‘served’ by a wireless network they neither want nor need.”