PSSA: FirstNet Would Use 4.9 GHz Band Most Effectively
The Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) defended its push for assigning 4.9 GHz band spectrum to FirstNet (see 2401190067), in a filing posted Wednesday in docket 07-100. It’s important that the FCC “preserve access to the band for incumbent users,…
while taking steps to increase nationwide usage as well as leverage the unique characteristics of this mid-band spectrum to supercharge 5G capabilities for a broader array of public safety users,” the PSSA said: Under current rules “the band would remain balkanized and underutilized nationwide -- as it has for more than two decades.” Giving the FirstNet Authority access is “the clear and obvious path to advance the public interest,” the group said.