Wireless Bureau Seeks Comment on GCI Backhaul Waiver
The FCC Wireless Bureau sought comment Thursday on an application by Alaska’s General Communication Inc. for waiver of channelization and other limitations so GCI can use 6 GHz spectrum for wireless backhaul. The company sought authorization to deploy common carrier…
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fixed point-to-point microwave service using 60 MHz channels across the three upper 6 GHz sub-bands at various sites in rural Alaska, as well as for microwave paths directly connected to those sites, the bureau said. “GCI operates TERRA, which it states is the first terrestrial … middle-mile network in western Alaska,” said a bureau notice. “TERRA is a hybrid fiber-microwave network that provides broadband to more than 70 isolated, mostly Alaska Native, communities, many of which, according to GCI, are separated by vast distances and cannot be reached by road. GCI states that it continues to upgrade and expand TERRA, but the backbone paths of the microwave system are nearing capacity.” Comments are due July 15, replies Aug. 1, in docket 16-209.