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RS Access Defends 12 GHz Sharing Brattle Study

The Brattle Group study on possible economic benefits of opening the 12 GHz band to 5G (see 2105100028) reasonably used the C band as the most comparable spectrum band, especially because the two bands are particularly similar in some areas…

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of propagation, RS Access said in docket 20-443 Monday. The Brattle study's assumptions and methodologies line up with those of the RKF Engineering Solutions study of 5G sharing the band with non-geostationary orbit satellite operations, RSA said. The RKF study "emphatically" doesn't conclude that there will be harmful interference but instead says any interference "will prove inconsequential once the system resources and performance characteristics of satellite and terrestrial systems are taken into account," RSA said.