Samsung Says Multiband Radio 'Important to 5G Deployment'
Samsung Electronics America told an aide to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel that approval of its request for waiver for a 5G base station radio working across citizens broadband radio service and C-band spectrum (see [Ref:2309130041) is important to 5G deployment…
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in the U.S. “Additional delay in granting the Petition will hold up deployment in both the 3.7 GHz and CBRS bands,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 23-93. “The waiver advances the public interest by affording 5G network operators access to an innovative, efficient, and cost-effective base station that is smaller and has greater functionality than separate, standalone CBRS and 3.7 GHz band radios,” the company said. Samsung noted it’s a proponent of CBRS as a “major CBRS vendor” including to cable operators like Comcast for its Philadelphia CBRS deployment and “broke new ground by offering the first phone with CBRS” in the U.S.: “Simply put, Samsung would not develop or deploy a multiband radio that would intentionally cause interference to its own or anyone else’s CBRS radios.”