Aerospace Group Defends 3.45 GHz Recon Petition
The Aerospace Industries Association fired back at wireless industry critics (see 2106220040) of its May petition asking the FCC to reconsider a decision in the 3.45 GHz auction order to not launch a coordination framework ensuring aerospace contractors have “dependable…
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and reliable access” to the band (see 2105100023). “The Oppositions provide no cognizable rationale for the Commission to ignore the public interest and decline to provide for coordination to facilitate such contractor access,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 19-348. “Access to the 3.45 GHz Band is critical for contractors to conduct the testing [to] support the government radars operating in that band that serve the country’s national security interests." A coordination framework would mean more certainty for bidders in the 3.45 GHz auction, not less, “by clarifying the coordination expectations of the auction winners and the government contractors using the band," AIA said.