Satellite, UMFU Need Nationwide Spectrum Sharing, Boeing Says
While taking FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn on a tour of Boeing's North Charleston, South Carolina, plant, company officials also talked up co-primary spectrum sharing in the 37.5-40 GHz band between very high data rate satellite communications systems and the proposed…
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upper microwave flexible use (UMFU) service, the company said in an ex parte filing Thursday in docket 14-177. According to Boeing, its executives told Clyburn that designating 37.5-40 GHz solely for UMFU without nationwide spectrum sharing, including in urban areas, with co-primary, receive-only satellite user terminal operations, "would be exceedingly inefficient," since satellite communications in the band can provide universal coverage while UMFU proponents "have acknowledged that UMFU systems may never provide service to consumers outside of dense urban areas." Boeing executives also told Clyburn there's a need for more unlicensed spectrum in the 64-71 GHz band for advanced manufacturing and for use of the 67-71 GHz band for unlicensed in-flight services. Boeing officials on the tour included Audrey Allison, senior director-frequency management services, and General Manager Beverly Wyse of Boeing South Carolina.