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The Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition responded to American...

The Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition responded to American Petroleum Institute objections that allowing 30 MHz channels in the upper 6 GHz band could lead to congestion like that elsewhere in the band. “The congestion now seen in the Lower…

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6 band is not due primarily to wide-bandwidth Fixed Service operation,” the coalition said. “Rather, the thousands of uplink earth stations in that band create difficulties in frequency-coordinating new Fixed Service stations. Each of these earth stations routinely coordinates the entire Lower 6 band, and the entire visible geosynchronous arc, even if the earth station actually uses far less spectrum on just one or two satellites.” The large number of earth stations, combined with fixed service operations, leaves little room for new fixed service links, the coalition said. “But there are no earth stations in the Upper 6, and Fixed Service operators are permitted to coordinate only the frequencies and azimuths they use.”