CTIA Supports FCC Wireless Broadband Process Update; T-Mobile Backs Millimeter Wave Efforts
CTIA further backed FCC efforts to modernize wireless broadband deployment processes. CTIA representatives "encouraged the Commission to find ways to more effectively target the environmental and historic preservation review of infrastructure and to streamline and provide clarity regarding the historic…
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preservation review process," said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 17-79 on a meeting with Commissioner Brendan Carr and an aide. T-Mobile supported the FCC's continuing efforts to make millimeter wave bands available for mobile wireless broadband services. "To ensure continued U.S. leadership in Fifth Generation ('5G') wireless networks, we urged the Commission to initiate the process of auctioning together in 2018 the spectrum that has already been made available for that purpose -- in particular, the 24 GHz, 28 GHz, 37 GHz, 39 GHz and 47 GHz bands," said a filing in docket 14-177 on a discussion with Wireless Bureau Chief Don Stockdale and aides. "[W]hile T-Mobile has petitioned for reconsideration of the Commission’s allocation decision governing the 37-37.6 GHz band and the issue of operability in the band remains open, neither matter need delay Commission efforts to conduct an auction for the remainder of the 37 GHz and 39 GHz bands (37.6-40 GHz)."