Caution Urged on Changing 2.5 GHz Band Rules
The North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation and Mobile Beacon urged the FCC to protect existing educational broadband service licensees if it makes changes to the 2.5 GHz band. Commissioners approved 4-0 last May an NPRM on ways to spark…
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interest in the band, including a potential incentive auction (see 1805100053). The foundation and Mobile Beacon said they looked closely at proposals. "The Commission can best achieve its goals by rationalizing all existing licenses to allow operators to ‘edge out’ their networks from the current, outdated circular GSAs to standard geographic boundaries,” they said Thursday in docket 18-120. “This is the most expedient way to facilitate additional investment and deployment, empowering existing licensees and operators to deploy immediately to the areas adjacent to the current GSAs, accelerating both 5G and rural deployment.” Rural operators "support requiring a ‘local presence’ and more stringent build out standards, and urge the Commission against adopting mechanisms such as an incentive auction that may further the issue of spectrum warehousing,” filed Central Texas Communications, Coleman County Telephone Cooperative, Colorado Valley Communications, Mahaska Communication Group, Mark Twain Communications and Peoples Wireless.