Satellite Operators, Wireless Companies Meet With FCC on 28 GHz Band
Satellite operators raised “aggregate interference concerns” for fixed satellite service receivers from carrier operations in the 28 GHz band, in a meeting with FCC officials. Representatives of EchoStar, Inmarsat, Intelsat, O3b Limited, OneWeb, SES Americom and ViaSat participated, a filing…
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in docket 14-177 said. The FCC is looking at the band for sharing as part of a spectrum frontiers rulemaking (see 1603090057). Satellite companies have assured FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler they won’t obstruct use of the band for 5G. But the satellite companies said aggregate equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP) density limits are critical. “We continue to work with Nokia as a representative of [5G] proponents,” the filing said. “In light of the Chairman’s announced intention to address this issue at the Commission’s open meeting in July, we will reach out to Nokia and other vendors in order to schedule meetings during the week of May 16, to better model the interference scenario and arrive at a more precise definition of aggregate EIRP density limits.” AT&T, Nokia, Samsung, T-Mobile and Verizon officials met with officials from the Wireless and International bureaus and the Office of Engineering and Technology to offer early Nokia test results, a second filing in the docket said.