O'Rielly Warns Against Potential Pitfalls at WRC
A key goal of the U.S. at the World Radiocommunication Conference should be shoring up its positions on mid-band spectrum, especially the 3.1-3.3 GHz band, FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly said at the Mobile World Congress. “The Americas region is supporting…
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the study of spectrum from 3.3 GHz to 15.35 GHz, with specific bands to be determined later,” O’Rielly said: “It does not include bands the FCC was seeking, such as 3.1 to 3.3 GHz. That is a mistake and something that can be fixed in Egypt,” site of the conference. The U.S. should guard against anything that would undermine the use of the 6 GHz band for Wi-Fi and other unlicensed, he said. “We have to ensure that unnecessarily restrictive technical protections are not adopted, under the guise of protecting users in adjacent bands, that could hamper 5G operations,” he said in remarks posted Thursday. WRC starts next week. O’Rielly said other federal agencies should speed their look at the 3.1 to 3.55 GHz band. "The federal government users have been told by Congress to study these bands, but this process has been painfully drawn out," he said: "After signaling that they would relinquish the upper portion of the band from 3.45 to 3.55 GHz, the Department of Defense instead, did an unnecessary sharing feasibility study. This is spectrum that should have already been turned over for commercial use."