Fiber Plan for C Band Should Satisfy FCC Demands, Campbell Says
A plan for the C band, offered by the Competitive Carriers Association, America's Communications Association and Charter Communications (see 1907020061) is emerging as a big challenge to the C-Band Alliance’s proposal, Tech Knowledge Director Fred Campbell said Tuesday. The three…
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offer a “serious proposal grounded firmly in FCC precedent that addresses the CBA’s greatest weakness: the amount of C-Band spectrum (from 3.7-4.2 GHz) the CBA plan would clear (180 MHz) isn’t enough to meet the Trump Administration’s goal for U.S. leadership in 5G,” Campbell wrote in Forbes. The CCA proposal would make at least 370 MHz of spectrum available for 5G, “enough to ensure that each nationwide mobile operator has an opportunity to obtain at least 100 MHz of contiguous mid-band spectrum,” he said. The plan does this by moving delivery of cable and other video programming from satellite systems to terrestrial fiber, he said: The transition also “would support the delivery of 4k and 8k content by cable operators, push more fiber deeper into rural areas, and would avoid the need to launch new C-Band satellites (and the potential for indeterminate delay due to launch or in-orbit failures).” The alliance didn't comment. The Wireless ISP Association and Google, meanwhile, met Office of Engineering and Technology Chief Julius Knapp and others to discuss their study by Virginia Tech professor Jeff Reed on a methodology for sharing the band while protecting earth stations. They reported on the meeting Tuesday in docket 18-122.