FCC Bureau, Setting Sights on 5G and IoT, Accepting Applications to Modify 39 GHz Licenses
The FCC Wireless Bureau said it's accepting applications to modify existing licenses in the 39 GHz band. “The Bureau is accepting these modification applications to facilitate the efficient use by existing 39 GHz licensees of the millimeter wave spectrum” for…
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5G, the IoT and “other advanced spectrum-based services” before an auction of new licenses for flexible use in the band, said a Thursday public notice in docket 18-619. Nothing the bureau is doing “prejudges the proposals pending before the Commission regarding the assignment of licenses for, or access to, the 39 GHz band,” staff said. The FCC hasn't set a date for a 39 GHz auction. "We emphasize that -- for purposes of streamlined processing -- licensees may only request modifications that reflect the amount of their existing holdings, i.e., they cannot apply for modifications to their licenses that cover more MHz-Pops within each [market] than what they currently hold in the 39 GHz band," the bureau said.