NTIA Should Make Public Report on Lower 3 GHz Band, Says 5G Americas
5G Americas asked NTIA Thursday to release its technical feasibility report on the 3100-3450 MHz by the end of April. NTIA should also ask its Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Council “to focus exclusively on facilitating commercial access to the Lower…
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3 GHz Band with a goal of developing recommendations by the end of 2020, for action in 2021,” the group said. NTIA and DOD officials should “begin biweekly meetings with the FCC and industry on evaluating the Lower 3 GHz for commercial access” and NTIA should “issue a statement committing to licensed commercial use in the Lower 3 GHz Band where feasible,” the letter said. “High-speed broadband is critical to weathering the current COVID crisis, and America’s reliance on broadband is only growing,” 5G Americas said: “America will need the efficiencies and innovation 5G brings all the more across the range of industrial, government and personal applications 5G makes possible.” Commissioner Mike O’Rielly, in particular, has focused on 3.1-3.55 GHz, which he considers prime spectrum (see 2001080035). NTIA didn't comment.