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Ruckus Executives Meet O'Rielly on 3.5 GHz Rules

Arris' Ruckus President Dan Rabinovitsj and Chief Technology Officer Steve Martin met with Commissioner Mike O’Rielly at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to encourage the FCC to act on the 3.5 GHz citizens broadband radio service band. The executives…

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are encouraged by FCC steps, including recent conditional approval of four environmental sensing capability operators (see 1802210053) and the Office of Engineering and Technology’s release of knowledge database guidance on device certification. In a filing in docket 17-258, Arris supported unlicensed operations in the 5925-7125 MHz frequency range "on the condition that the existing incumbent operations are appropriately protected." Verizon said it met with Rachael Bender, aide to Chairman Ajit Pai, on the band. “We expressed support for targeted changes to the licensing regime for Priority Access Licenses,” the carrier said. License renewability and longer license terms are important, as are larger geographic licenses, it said. “While we recognized that there is no optimal geographic size for all bidders, we explained that it is generally easier to disaggregate down in a secondary market than to aggregate up to a desired size at auction.”