The FCC can provide more spectrum for wireless broadband quickly ...
The FCC can provide more spectrum for wireless broadband quickly by finishing allocations stalled at the agency, Sprint Nextel said in comments on National Broadband Plan Public Notice No. 6. “The Commission should first make available the 50 MHz…
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of commercial spectrum in its ’spectrum warehouse,’ consisting of the 1.9 GHz H Block, the 2.0 GHz J Block, the 2.1 GHz AWS-3 Block, and the 700 MHz D Block,” the company said. “The Commission has already conducted extensive rulemaking proceedings for each of these bands, and it should hasten their licensing by setting deadlines for issuing final rules and scheduling auctions. Doing so will increase competition, promote investment, and encourage wireless deployment.” The commission also should reduce the 2 GHz MSS spectrum assignments of ICO and TerreStar to no more than 10 MHz each and “remove the technical uncertainty and extremely stringent out-of-band emissions limits currently thwarting” development of Wireless Communications Services spectrum, Sprint said.