UTC Chief Meets With Pai on Mid-Band Spectrum Concerns, Other Issues
Utilities Technology Council President Joy Ditto met with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on the group’s concerns over interference in the 6 GHz band, tied to the mid-band proceeding, and other issues important to electric utilities. “For their wireless networks, utilities…
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need access to additional spectrum to expand capacity and coverage, and they also need protection from interference and congestion in existing spectrum bands,” the group said in a filing in docket 17-183. The 6 GHz band is “home to thousands of fixed microwave systems, which utilities, public safety and other critical infrastructure industries, including railroads use for a variety of mission critical communications that protect the safety of life, health and property.” UTC also said utilities need “sufficient notice from carriers prior to discontinuance or replacement of copper-based wireline networks and services” and to recover the full costs of pole attachments by third-party communications service providers.