AT&T Gets Some Relief From FCC for WCS Deployment, Following 2013 SiriusXM Settlement
The FCC Wireless Bureau gave AT&T some of the relief it sought on performance requirements and construction deadlines for its 2.3 GHz wireless communications service C and D block licenses. “The unique context surrounding AT&T’s WCS C and D Block…
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licenses, as well as the difficulty of applying conventional population- or fixed link-based construction metrics to the proposed hybrid nature of AT&T’s smart grid operation, justifies relief from our rules,” the bureau said in an order Wednesday. “We permit AT&T to offer a service consistent with WCS rules that makes productive use of spectrum that has remained underutilized for nearly 20 years, yet minimizes the risk of harmful interference to neighboring operations.” The FCC National Broadband Plan targeted the 2.3 GHz spectrum for wireless broadband. A 2013 settlement between AT&T and SiriusXM opened the door for the carrier to deploy LTE in the band (see 1210180070).