The FCC needs to go slow as it...
The FCC needs to go slow as it finalizes rules for the 3.5 GHz shared-use spectrum band, balancing “implementation of this new sharing model and incentives to invest in the technology necessary to make it work,” AT&T Assistant Vice President…
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Federal Regulatory Stacey Black said Thursday in an AT&T blog post. Under the FCC’s proposal Priority Access Licensees (PAL) would share the spectrum with General Authorized Access (GAA) users, similar to unlicensed use, he said (http://bit.ly/1jz8BEw). AT&T recommends a “transitional, phased-in, interim approach,” dividing the spectrum into PAL-only shared use and GAA-only sub-bands, he said. “This will allow PAL and GAA service providers to develop their products for initial deployment in a familiar environment, such as in our case, licensed geographic areas with a five-year license term and a renewal expectancy coupled to build-out requirements,” Black said. “Having separate PAL and GAA sub-bands would provide immediate access for deployment without any fear of interference and 100 percent of the attention can be focused on preventing interference to/from the federal incumbent users.”