Broadband Access Coalition Members Make Case for 3.7 GHz Plan at FCC
Broadband Access Coalition representatives explained their plan for the 3.7 GHz band (see 1708080050) in meetings with Commissioner Brendan Carr, Office of Engineering and Technology Chief Julius Knapp and other officials over two days. BAC is proposing fixed satellite service…
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users be required to disclose how much spectrum they actually use, a spokesman said. Most use only a fraction of the band’s 500 MHz, he said. “For example, Associated Press, which has 975 registered earth stations, roughly 25 percent of the total, uses at each location only 23 MHz, since all of its earth stations are locked on a single transponder on a single satellite,” the spokesman said. “The BAC representatives urged the Commission to act as soon as possible to gather accurate data from the FSS industry, and to require earth stations seeking interference protection to register by a date certain,” said a filing in docket 17-183. The main proponents of the proposal are Mimosa Networks, the Wireless ISP Association and New America’s Open Technology Institute. AP didn't comment.