Outreach Continues to FCC on Changes to 2.5 GHz Band: WCA Eyes White Space Auction
Wireless Communications Association representatives met an aide to FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly and with Wireless Bureau staff to urge the FCC to adopt the group's proposed approach on 2.5 GHz educational broadband service spectrum. WCA wants the FCC to “rationalize”…
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existing EBS geographic service areas to the country boundary, open eligibility in the band to commercial licensees and then auction remaining EBS white spaces. “Unlike alternative proposals, this approach is most likely to result in auctioning of the EBS white space without the years of delay that otherwise would be required to identify the specific spectrum available at auction,” the group said. WCA opposes an incentive auction, here and here, posted in docket 18-120 Thursday. Voqal and the North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation also held a series of meetings on EBS. They “explained how the Commission can best achieve its goal of intensive use of EBS spectrum while promoting both rural deployment and educational use by modernizing, but retaining, its educational eligibility and usage rules, and automatically rationalizing existing license areas along county lines for all licensees.” They met with aides to the commissioners, except O'Rielly, and Wireless Bureau staff.