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Winn Forum Approves Procedures for 3.5 GHz Shared Band

The Wireless Innovation Forum said its members approved its Spectrum Sharing Committee’s signaling protocols and procedures to be used in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band for spectrum access systems -- and spectrum access system (SAS) interfaces.…

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“These standards are the first of their kind addressing the new FCC Part 96 rules for CBRS. Publication of these standards represents a major milestone for enabling U.S. commercialization of the band,” the Winn Forum said in a Tuesday news release. Elements include SAS-SAS prerequisites, SAS-SAS procedures, SAS-SAS synchronization, message encoding and transport and parameters of SAS-SAS messages, the forum said. The new administration is expected by some to make changes to the rules for the 3.5 GHz band (see 1611180037).