Any changes to link registration rules for the 70/80/90 GHz bands should include the requirement that operators in the 70/80 GHz bands certify that link construction is complete within 30 days after the construction deadline, or the registration automatically expires, Hughes told an aide to FCC acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, per a docket 20-133 post Tuesday. Hughes said the agency should require 70/80 GHz operators to certify antenna patterns. It said the FCC shouldn't authorize aeronautical service there without a showing there won't be harm to fixed satellite service, which is allocated use on a co-primary basis.

Aerospace Industries Association, Rural Wireless Associations and Blooston petitions to reconsider the 3.45 GHz band order got pushback Tuesday in docket 19-348. CTIA said in an opposition the AIA petition is an attempt to essentially elevate Part 5 experimental license holders from non-interfering secondary operations to co-primary status through a new coordination framework, and presents nothing new as the basis for a reconsideration. CTIA said it opposes RWA's request the license term for new flexible-use licenses drop from 15 years to 10, since 15 years ensures new licensees have time to deploy service given DOD repurposing. T-Mobile said the FCC correctly rejected a coordination framework for federal contractors, and reversing that would undermine the proceeding's purpose of making more spectrum available for commercial mobile services. It said calls by RWA and small carriers represented by Blooston law firm to license on a countywide basis run contrary to the idea that licensing by partial economic area will better let carriers aggregate the spectrum across similar bands like C. AT&T said the petitions could delay the start of Auction 110, and they recycle previously made arguments. RWA said it backs Blooston's call to reconsider licensing 10 3.45 GHz channel blocks as PEAs, but the agency should license them instead by county. RWA agreed with Blooston that Auction 110 short form application deadlines should be delayed to Q1.

The FCC Wireless Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology OK'd Key Bridge Wireless’ request for a six-month extension of deadlines to retest its environmental sensing capability (ESC), said a public notice Monday. The retesting and a report on the results are now due Dec. 31; it was June 30. Key Bridge “has been unable to coordinate access” to NTIA's Institute for Telecommunication Sciences lab “to retest its ESC capabilities,” due to COVID-19 restrictions, the PN said. This is the second extension the company received.

The deadline for some Part 22 and Part 90 applications for T-band facilities from incumbent licensees was extended 180 days to Dec. 19, said an FCC Public Safety and Wireless bureaus public notice Monday.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld dismissal of a claim by Daredevil against ZTE, after a Florida arbiter addressed a lawsuit charging “breach of contract, fraud, and unjust enrichment.” Daredevil had sued subsidiary ZTE USA in Florida and an “arbitrator ultimately denied each of Daredevil’s claims,” said an order posted Friday in docket 19-3769. Daredevil then reopened the case in the Eastern District of Missouri, which was denied by a lower court citing the Florida arbitration. “The district court correctly concluded that claim preclusion applies here,” the 8th circuit ruled: “Daredevil’s current and previous claims share identity of the parties and identity of the cause of action.” ZTE didn’t comment. Daredevil had contracted with ZTE in several areas to provide gear and technology as it sought to build a wireless network, but over time “the parties’ business relationship broke down,” which led to allegations of “breach of contract, rescission, and unjust enrichment,” the court said. Deredevil alleged that because of ZTE's action in Missouri, it couldn't develop the St. Louis market.

Aviation and aerospace industry representatives answered FCC engineering staff questions on “methods of testing and analysis” used in a multistakeholder group report on interference risks to low-range radar altimeters posed by mobile C-band use. NTIA and FCC officials were also in the discussion, with staff from the Office of Engineering and Technology and Wireless Bureau, said a Friday posting in docket 18-122. "Commission staff’s questions and resulting discussion were wide ranging.”

The FCC declined to adopt proposals by CTA and Garmin on temporary labels for RF devices that may now be imported for sale before they are authorized. Commissioners OK’d revised rules 4-0 Thursday (see 2106170051). “CTA requested clarification on the interaction between temporary labeling and e-labeling requirements and Garmin requested clarification on temporary labeling for bulk devices sealed in shipping containers or wrapping,” said the order. “Temporary label rules we adopt here are a necessary safeguard against the transfer of devices to consumers in advance of completing equipment authorization,” the order said: “Because we believe the rules we adopt today are sufficiently clear and balance flexibility for manufacturers with the important goals of the equipment authorization process, we decline to adopt here the further clarifications.” Our comparison didn’t reveal other significant changes over the draft.

In a call with an aide to FCC acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, CTIA urged release of more details as carriers decide whether to bid in the 3.45 GHz auction. CTIA “emphasized the critical need” for NTIA and DOD “to make available as soon as possible additional information concerning the 3.45 GHz coordination framework with more granularity,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 19-348.

NCTA and cable operators opposed higher power levels in the citizens broadband radio service band, in calls with FCC Wireless Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology staffers. “Raising the power levels for CBRS would fundamentally alter the nature of the service by undermining the innovative spectrum sharing concept that the Commission enabled when it adopted the CBRS framework, endangering new and innovative approaches to service delivery, inhibiting competition, and undermining auction business cases and expectations,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 19-348. Representatives of Charter Communications, Comcast, Cox Enterprises, Midcontinent Communications and CableLabs participated.

Commissioners approved 4-0 ahead of Thursday’s meeting an uncontroversial NPRM on rules and use of the automatic identification system for devices used to mark fishing equipment. The FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act required the FCC to launch a proceeding on the topic by June 30. There were no ex parte filings on the draft NPRM in docket 21-230. The NPRM seeks comment “on the current types and usages of such devices,” the costs and benefits of their use on alternative spectrum, and on “how best to categorize devices used to mark fishing equipment and protect incumbents through technical and operational limitations.” Comment deadlines will come in the Federal Register.