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CTIA Offers FCC Answers to Questions on Proposed Role as 3.5 GHz Band Administrator

CTIA offered the FCC responses to questions the agency asked about the group’s proposal to be a spectrum access system (SAS) administrator and an environmental sensing capability (ESC) operator in the 3.5 GHz shared band. Parts of the response were…

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redacted by CTIA in a filing in docket 15-319. Work is continuing, CTIA said. “CTIA has been working collaboratively with other leading SAS applicants to create a framework for sharing appropriate CBSD [Citizens Broadband Radio Service Device] registration information among SAS administrators,” the association said. “We are confident that these discussions will be finalized soon, and we will have a robust framework to present to the Commission. At that time, CTIA will modify its application to describe that framework.” The FCC has been working to open the 3550-3650 MHz band for shared use and use by small cells since a December 2012 NPRM (see 1212130044). The FCC still must approve SASs and ESCs that will help make sharing work in the band. Others also made filings in the docket on their SAS and/or ESC plans.