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FCC Extends 12.7 GHz Comment Deadlines by Two Weeks

The FCC Wireless Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology extended by 14 days the initial and reply comment deadlines on the 12.7 GHz notice of inquiry approved by commissioners in October (see 2210270046). The Open Technology Institute at New…

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America and Public Knowledge asked for an extra 21 days, satellite operators 14 days, the FCC noted Tuesday. “We conclude that extension of the comment and reply comment deadlines to December 12 ... and January 10, ... respectively, will provide interested parties with additional time to prepare comments and reply comments that respond to the important issues raised in the NOI, and no party will be adversely affected by this extension." Said a filing by the public interest groups, posted Tuesday in docket 22-352: “The current schedule affords commenters only 30 days from adoption of the NOI to consider the Commission’s inquiry, gather information, and compose comments ... This is unusually challenging because of the very wide scope of the Commission’s inquiry. … Importantly, and unlike most Commission proceedings, the 12.7-13.25 GHz proceeding does not concern a frequency band that has been extensively considered and debated previously.”