Tribes Cleared to Use 2.5 GHz Band to Connect Trust, Fee Lands
The FCC Wireless Bureau approved a waiver for Maine’s Passamaquoddy Tribe to use 2.5 GHz spectrum for wireless connections on 94,000 acres of trust lands. “According to the Tribe, most of the trust lands are in areas lacking state municipal…
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governments and where ‘there is a general lack of basic infrastructure, and there is simply no telecommunications infrastructure like cell phone or radio towers,’” said Tuesday's order. The rules exclude trust lands, but “strictly applying" that "would be inconsistent with the Tribal Window’s purpose of providing wireless communications services in rural Tribal areas,” the bureau said. Staff also OK'd a waiver sought by the Middletown Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California for several parcels of fee lands owned by the tribe adjacent to or near their reservation.