IEEE Working Group Stance on 3.5 GHz Band Shortsighted, Calabrese Says
The decision of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group on Wireless LANs to not develop a standard for the 3.5 GHz spectrum sharing band is “very shortsighted,” New America Foundation Wireless Future Project Director Michael Calabrese said. The IEEE group complained…
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that the restriction zones for the band are still too broad to make development of a standard financially viable (see 1507150039). “Although the FCC has adopted overly restrictive exclusion zones along the coastlines, to protect naval radar, they are temporary,” he told us. “NTIA, [the Department of Defense] and FCC have already agreed on a path to allow the private sector to deploy inexpensive sensors along the coast to protect radars. Once deployed, the exclusion zones become fairly minimal, allowing the mass markets that chip and equipment makers covet.” All indications are sensing technology “will be in place and certified in roughly the same time frame it would take to develop equipment for the band,” Calabrese said. “If the Wi-Fi standards body does not start now, they probably cede dominance of this incredibly promising small cell band to LTE-based gear.”