WISPA Says C-Band Sharing Complaints Based on ITU Report Are Misleading
The Wireless ISP Association slammed NAB and Satellite Industry Association filings raising questions on whether the C band can be safely shared with fixed point-to-multipoint (P2MP) operations. Both referred to an ITU report, WISPA filed, posted Thursday in docket 18-122.…
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“Citing the ITU report is misleading because NAB, and SIA before it, mention only the fact that interference occurred, and do not explain that the circumstances in Bangladesh and Brazil were entirely different from coordinated sharing that would take place in the United States under the proposal advanced by the Broadband Access Coalition and others in this proceeding,” WISPA said. Both “mislead the Commission by disingenuously comparing carefully coordinated P2MP operations in C-band spectrum to network deployments about which next to nothing is known, except that they were likely uncoordinated with earth stations,” WISPA said. "NAB does not have confidence that the unproven P2MP coordination proposal will fully protect earth stations, and adding the P2MP proposal to an already complex C-Band reallocation would be reckless," a NAB spokesperson emailed Thursday: "There is no indication that the operations in Bangladesh and Brazil (as well as other countries) were not authorized operations -- yet they still caused interference.” SIA didn't comment.