Coalition Wants FCC to Explore Alternative Protection for Passive Services
The Millimeter Wave Coalition asked the FCC to launch a rulemaking on one technical issue raised by the recent spectrum horizons order, approved 5-0 in March (see 1903150054), on the effect of footnote US246 to the U.S. table of allocations.…
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The footnote is designed to protect passive services (see 1903130057). The scientific services protected are important, the coalition said. "The Coalition does not doubt the need to continue to protect these scientific services,” said a petition in docket 18-21. “For the special case of spectrum above 95 GHz, is there an alternative way to both protect the key passive services and also enable new terrestrial uses of spectrum under a strict framework that encourages privately funded research and development and commercialization of the spectrum above 95 GHz.”