SES Raises U-NIII Device Concerns
SES Americom continues to push against expanding the use of unlicensed national information infrastructure (U-NII) devices in the 5.9 GHz band, as company officials met with FCC representatives to discuss it, SES said in an ex parte filing posted Friday…
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regarding docket 13-49. U-NII devices in the 5.9 GHz band could lead to "harmful cumulative interference" to fixed satellite service operations, SES said. The FCC also needs to consider how using U-NII devices in that piece of spectrum might affect satellite service, or that the IEEE had so far not inspected fixed satellite service operations in looking at that spectrum sharing. In a related filing posted Monday, Paul Nikolich, IEEE 802 committee chair, said a "Tiger Team" looking at spectrum sharing between wireless local access networks and dedicated short-range communications had "examined some initial ideas for how band sharing could work." Nikolich also pointed the FCC to further documents about future testing that needs to be done to ensure 5.9 GHz band sharing will insulate dedicated short-range communications transmissions from interference.