CTIA Seeks Changes to 3.5 GHz Band Rules
CTIA requested changes to rules for the 3.5 GHz shared band, in an FCC petition for rulemaking. Commissioner Mike O’Rielly is overseeing revisions to the rules, which were finalized last year (see 1704190056). CTIA focused on rules for priority access…
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licensees (PALs), the licensed component of the band. The FCC should change the PAL term from three years to “a standard, ten-year license term with an expectation of renewal to promote investment in the band” and modify PAL areas to partial economic areas rather than smaller census tracts, it said in docket 12-354. The agency should modify requirements for spectrum access system administrators’ treatment of registration information, “to reduce security risks to user identity information and to protect sensitive deployment information from disclosure to competitors,” CTIA said. “These changes will encourage investment in and development of this ‘innovation band,’ which holds promise for small cell deployment for mobile broadband.”