The FCC scheduled for publication in Monday's Federal Register all parts of the complicated item on the lower and upper 12 GHz band, approved by commissioners 4-0 in May. Comments are due Aug. 9, replies Sept. 8, on a Further NPRM on facilitating more robust terrestrial operations in the lower band, 12.2-12.7 GHz, “through additional possible terrestrial uses of the band.” Comments are due the same days on an NPRM on “various proposed means for transitioning some or all of the 550 megahertz between 12.7-13.25 GHz … to mobile broadband and other expanded use, as well as on alternative changes to the Commission’s rules that could promote use of the band on a shared basis.” An order directing fixed and mobile broadcast auxiliary services and cable television relay services licensees authorized to use the upper band “to certify the accuracy of the information reflected on their licenses, including whether their facilities are operating as authorized” is effective Monday, though the date when the filings are due will have to await another notice. Also effective Monday, an order saying “it is not in the public interest to add a mobile allocation to permit a two-way terrestrial 5G service in the 12.2 GHz band based on the current record.”

The market for in-vehicle advanced driver assistance systems will reach $6.1 billion globally by 2028, said a new report by ResearchAndMarkets.com. The report predicted the Western Europe market will be a leader for vehicle-to-everything, hitting $11.2 billion by 2028. “Combined 5G and mobile edge computing solutions” will “accelerate V2X growth” in the Asia Pacific and North America markets, the report said.

AT&T is working with Boldyn Networks to expand 5G coverage in the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) system by installing antennas in 11 miles of tunnels and 11 underground stations, the companies said Thursday. “Our next-generation SFMTA distributed antenna system network is an extension of our high-density fiber footprint in the region which delivers 5G wireless connectivity, data center access, and enables connected buildings to better serve residents and businesses,” said Christos Karmis, CEO of Boldyn Networks’ U.S. business.

Verizon and T-Mobile split the honors in Opensignal’s July 5G experience report. Verizon won on 5G upload speed, with a score of 18.5 Mbps, “breaking T-Mobile’s streak of seven consecutive wins,” the company said: “AT&T lags behind its competitors with a score of 12.1 Mbps, as T-Mobile and Verizon users’ average 5G upload speeds are 50% and 52.1% faster, respectively.” T-Mobile won on download speed, for the eighth consecutive time, with a score of 195.5 Mbps, which is “twice as fast as Verizon users and 2.4 times as fast as AT&T users,” Opensignal said. Verizon offers the best “5G Live Video Experience,” the report said. But T-Mobile’s network is more widely available. T-Mobile users spend 57.9% of their time on the 5G network, which is “2.8 times more than the time” spent by AT&T users “and nearly six times more than Verizon users,” Opensignal said.

The FCC Wireless Bureau sought comment through July 17, replies July 24, on an NFL request for a two-year waiver extension of rules for the citizens broadband radio service, allowing the league to continue operating a coach-to-coach communications system in the event of a localized internet outage in stadiums during games (see 230601002). “The NFL contends that an extension of the conditional waiver is needed in case simultaneous Internet outages occur during or immediately prior to a football game, preventing its system from connecting" to a spectrum access system, the bureau said Wednesday in docket 21-111. “The NFL also asserts that an extension will allow it to continue to assess the technical and regulatory aspects of additional workaround solutions in the event of a simultaneous Internet outage.”

The FCC lifted one of the restrictions, limiting on-board units (OBUs) to 20 dBm transmitter output power, that was part of the joint waiver allowing some proponents of cellular-vehicle-to-everything in the 5.9 GHz band to start to deploy. The FCC approved the waiver in April (see 2304240066) and waiver recipients sought the change last month (see 2306080023). Petitioners are correct that NTIA “recommended limits it deemed sufficient to protect federal systems from potential interference from C-V2X operations, in terms of [equivalent isotropic radiated power], during the waiver period, and did not require a Transmitter Output Power limit,” the Wednesday order said: “We also note that the Commission has moved away from defining the transmitter output power limit and antenna gain requirement in recent rulemakings in order to provide product design flexibility to manufacturers.” The waiver conditions aren’t “intended to add unnecessary burden or constraint on the deployment of C-V2X-based technology,” the FCC said. The order was handed down by the chiefs of the Public Safety and Wireless bureaus and the Office of Engineering and Technology.

CTIA and member companies raised concerns about an FCC proposal that carriers more precisely route wireless 911 calls and texts to public safety answering points through location-based routing (LBR) (see 2212210047), in a meeting with staff from FCC Public Safety and Wireless bureaus. “As wireless providers take different approaches to implementing LBR, CTIA noted that a wireless providers’ obligation to use LBR should be premised upon a valid PSAP request that includes the provision of the shapefiles, which are necessary for wireless providers to tailor their networks to unique geographies and PSAP boundaries,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 18-64: “For these reasons, CTIA also noted that non-nationwide wireless providers should have more time to deploy LBR within their networks than proposed in the NPRM.” CTIA also offered counsel on rules for providing location information with next-generation text solutions. The group “encouraged the Commission to focus on the use of LBR for real-time text and ensure that wireless providers have the flexibility to implement LBR for text-to-911 in ways that are consistent with their unique network and handset configurations.” AT&T, Dish Network, Southern Linc, T-Mobile and Verizon participated in the meeting.

The Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee will meet July 18, starting at 3 p.m., said a notice for Wednesday’s Federal Register. CSMAC last met in March (see 2303100038). The meeting will be at Wilkinson Barker, 1800 M St. NW, Suite 800N, Washington, D.C.

Public safety answering points continued to have a 30% increase in call volume in June, apparently tied to interface updates to some Android phones (see 2306210030), the National Emergency Number Association said. “NENA staff has been working with Google and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) regarding a recent and large uptick in accidental calls caused by changes to default behavior in some devices for the Emergency SOS feature in Android,” the group said last week. Android operating system software from both Google and the OEMs have updates to address the issue, NENA said: “For multiple major OEMs, the updates have already been pushed to the public and installed on many devices. It will take some time for updates to reach a critical mass of handsets, and for users to install them, for the issue to be completely addressed. This may take weeks to months. NENA advises all Android users to update their OS to the latest version.”

Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Program at New America, told an aide to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel the FCC was right in its approach proposing sharing in the 42 GHz band, approved by commissioners 4-0 in June (see 2306080042). Calabrese had been an early advocate of the approach (see 2305300055). Most of the licensed “Spectrum Frontier” spectrum “sits mostly idle in mobile carrier warehouses awaiting an economically viable use case,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 23-258: “In contrast, … this band, particularly in combination with the lower 37 GHz band, could facilitate very high-capacity point-to-multipoint fixed access wireless deployments where they are needed most in both less densely populated areas, as well as in multi-tenant environments.” Calabrese also asked about remaining unresolved issues in the 2020 Further NPRM on the 6 GHz band (see 2306230046). Public interest groups find it “very discouraging that some staff seem to want to take the Commission backwards to focusing on corner cases based on hypothetical measures of ‘interference’ … that are unrelated to actual harmful interference (i.e., to link availability),” Calabrese said.