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Lab and field tests conducted by Google, Federated...

Lab and field tests conducted by Google, Federated Wireless and Virginia Tech show that fixed exclusion zones are not needed in the 3.5 GHz band, they said in a filing posted Thursday in FCC docket 12-354. The FCC is looking…

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at use of the band for sharing and small cells, but questions remain about whether proposed exclusion zones are too large (CD Aug 25 p1). The filing follows a Tuesday meeting with commission staff, it said (http://bit.ly/1qh3D30). “Wi-Fi can operate within close proximity of the incumbent naval radar system without substantial degradation in performance,” the filing said. It said tests “demonstrate that fixed exclusion zones are not needed to protect the radar from interference from commercial operations and that dynamic exclusion zones can be implemented with existing technology."