Wi-Fi Concerns on LTE-U Can Easily Be Addressed, AT&T Executive Says
The concerns of the unlicensed community about LTE-unlicensed could be addressed if the FCC used authority already on the books, said Joan Marsh, AT&T vice president-federal regulatory, Thursday in a blog post. Marsh cited Telecom Act Section 333 rules against…
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“willfully or maliciously” interfering with licensed communications. “If this provision were broadly interpreted as applying to licensed and unlicensed services alike, it could provide protection against the very type of apocalyptic results that the Wi-Fi proponents fear,” Marsh wrote. “It could stand for the proposition that, while no existing unlicensed technology is entitled to any specific incumbency protections, no new unlicensed technology will be permitted to do the spectral equivalent of throwing existing users off park benches or flinging rocks at them.” If the FCC adopts that approach, companies deploying LTE-U “would be expected to listen and respond in good faith to co-existence concerns, but they would not be required to adopt specific protocols, achieve standardization in any specific governing body, or remain mired in some endless loop of interference testing before deploying,” she said.