Public Interest Groups Urge Tweaks to FCC's 12 GHz Draft
Representatives of the Open Technology Institute at New America and Public Knowledge generally agreed with the thrust of the draft 12 GHz item set for an FCC commissioner vote May 18 (see 2304270077) but also sought a few tweaks. The…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
groups spoke with an aide to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 20-443, and with an aide to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks. The groups proposed that both the Further NPRM and NPRM “request comment about the benefits and feasibility of authorizing opportunistic use of vacant spectrum on a localized basis for site-based, individually-coordinated fixed point-to-point and point-to-multipoint deployments,” the filing said: “We believe that particularly in the 12.2 GHz band, it’s quite likely that two-way fixed wireless access will require some form of database coordination that regularly updates the customer locations of the two primary satellite services. If that is the case, then like the [citizens broadband radio service] band, a ‘use-it-or-share-it’ condition could authorize General Authorized Access (GAA) on a lightly-licensed basis under the control of a FCC-certified coordination system.” The FCC should also “explicitly seek comment on multiple types of unlicensed access in both bands,” they said. RS Access representatives, meanwhile, reported on a meeting with Commissioner Nathan Simington and an aide to Starks. They “asked the Commission to tentatively conclude in its Further Notice that high-power fixed operations are compatible with other co-primary operations,” a filing said: They noted “the extensive technical analyses in the record, which establish that terrestrial, high-power transmission can provide important services while protecting other operations, including satellite-based operations, in the band.” The RS Access representatives also “acknowledged the Commission’s tentative assessment that ubiquitous mobile operations in the 12.2-12.7 GHz band are not feasible at this time, but requested that the Commission seek to further develop the record about the potential for non-ubiquitous mobile operations to coexist with other co-channel services in the band.” RS Access is a leading proponent of 5G in the spectrum.