Groups Push for Upper C-Band Comment Extension
The FCC should grant the 30-day extension the airline industry has requested for comments on the upper C-band spectrum auction (see 2511140015), said the North American Spectrum Alliance and a joint filing from public interest, tribal and rural interest groups…
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Friday. Due in part to the government shutdown, the FCC “currently has before it an unusual number of significant proceedings that affect overlapping sets of stakeholders,” said the joint filing from groups including Public Knowledge, the Rural Wireless Association and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. “Stakeholders with limited staff and resources face particular difficulty when multiple proceedings demand attention at the same time,” the filing said. “A modest extension in this docket will allow for more complete participation by parties whose perspective the Commission should want to hear.” The extra time “will result in the ‘complete record’ that the FCC is rightly seeking for this proceeding, without meaningfully delaying the ultimate timeline for the Upper C-band auction,” said the North American Spectrum Alliance filing. The “large and diverse group of stakeholders in the Upper C-band requires this additional time to submit well-informed comments on the complex and numerous scenarios for the auction and the post-auction transition,” the alliance said. A 30-day extension is “unlikely to delay the overall proceeding,” the joint filing said. “Congress has set a July 2027 deadline for the spectrum auction, and the Commission has ample time to complete this rule-making while still meeting that deadline.”