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Calif. Tribe Gets 2.5 GHz Waiver for Land Adjacent to Reservation

The FCC Wireless Bureau OK’d a waiver for California’s Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation to use 2.5 GHz spectrum for broadband on two parcels adjacent to its reservation “each of which include trust and fee lands interspersed with non-Tribal lands.” The bureau…

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previously approved use of the band on the reservation. Absent a waiver, the tribe “would have no reasonable alternative in providing service to its trust and fee lands,” Thursday's order said: “The nature of the trust and fee land being interspersed with non-Tribal land presents technical challenges in establishing a wireless network.”