For some time now we’ve been following the FCC’s efforts to establish the Citizens Broadband Service in the 3550-3650 MHz band. Most recently, back in May, the Commission disposed of several petitions for reconsideration of its April 2015 Report and Order. (We reported on those petitions last September.) In so doing, the Commission put the … Continue Reading
FCC wraps up additional work on 3.5 GHz proceeding, but more remains As we reported a year ago, the FCC has been hard at work developing the Citizens Broadband Radio Service in the 3550-3700 MHz (3.5 GHz) band. Under the new regulatory scheme, the Commission aims to try out a three-tiered access framework. Three different … Continue Reading
Back in May we reported on the opening up of the 3.5 GHz (3550-3700 MHz) band for a wide variety of new uses, making it the new home of the new Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS). While some of the new (or modified) rules governing that band took effect last July, a number didn’t, thanks … Continue Reading
You already know (because we told you last week) that the Commission has received eight petitions for reconsideration of various aspects of its new rules establishing the Citizens Broadband Radio Service. Now, thanks to a notice in the Federal Register, we know when comments (and replies to those comments) about any or all of those … Continue Reading
Petitioners’ suggestions are all over the map. We reported last May on the FCC’s adoption of preliminary rules for the Citizens Broadband Service at 3550-3700 MHz. Under those rules, a control database and automated frequency assignment mechanism, dubbed the Spectrum Access System (SAS), will assign frequencies to users on the fly in three priority levels: … Continue Reading
Justifications for possible U.S.-only standard, other details, questioned The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) appears to have assigned a high priority to the issue of the use of unlicensed spectrum by licensed wireless services. Less than six weeks after the close of an initial comment period on the subject, OET has posed a … Continue Reading
Thanks to sophisticated spectrum monitoring systems being developed, a wide variety of new uses are coming to the 3.5 GHz band, the home of the new Citizens Broadband Radio Service.… Continue Reading
Now that the FCC has released a public notice that considerably revises and expands its original proposals, the workshop should take on added interest for those interested in the band.… Continue Reading
Ordinarily we would summarize the public notice. Not this time. It runs to 18 single-spaced pages and is dense with information; an accurate summary would be almost as long as the document itself.… Continue Reading
Those interested in the FCC's novel, on-the-fly spectrum management system proposed for the 3.5 GHz band may be interested in this FCC workshop.… Continue Reading
The FCC has moved back the due date for reply comments on 3.5 GHz small cell issues in order to allow time following the FCC's March 13 public workshop.… Continue Reading
The FCC has proposed a set of rules that look innocuous enough, and would apply only to a single, underused band. But they would implement a suite of techniques having the potential to vastly increase the number of users that can share a given range of frequencies… Continue Reading
In refusing to change its interpretation of a rule some parties found to be unhelpfully vague, the FCC has left many uncertain of their obligations.… Continue Reading
In a decision that may surprise those accustomed to more traditional licensing, the FCC here sided with a party causing interference, in a ruling against an earlier-licensed interference victim.… Continue Reading
