C-Band Alliance's Transition Process Too Slow, Ericsson Tells FCC
The C-Band Alliance’s proposed 36-month transition process for making spectrum available for 5G doesn’t move quickly enough, Ericsson told the FCC in a Monday filing in docket 18-122. “The future of 5G will be severely impacted by a failure to…
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release large swaths of the C-band and 6 GHz as exclusive-use licensed spectrum,” the company said. “Because the CBA approach does not make nearly enough mid-band spectrum available for 5G and proposes to release the spectrum in a manner that could fragment the C-band, we are not in favor of the proposal.” The alliance agrees "with Ericsson that clearing spectrum quickly is the most important factor when creating a path to 5G for the U.S.,” a CBA spokesperson emailed. “As our filings indicate, in order to clear the 200 MHz proposed by our plan, yet continue to serve every one of our television and radio customers, we will need to procure eight satellites. Repositioning virtually every television channel in the U.S. -- safely and without signal interference -- to the remaining portion of the band will take time.” CBA has committed to doing all that within 18 to 36 months of a final FCC order, clearing 80 MHz of spectrum within 18 months, “far earlier than the alternatives,” the representative said.