WCA Urges FCC to Act on EBS Rule Change
The Wireless Communications Association urged the FCC to adopt policies for the 2.5 GHz band “rationalizing” educational broadband service geographic service areas to county boundaries, meeting with Aaron Goldberger, aide to Chairman Ajit Pai. Taking the step “without regard to…
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the size of the current overlap” is “a practical solution to the limitations of the Commission’s Universal Licensing System,” WCA said, posted Tuesday in docket 18-120. “This approach will provide substantial benefits to the public, as it will allow for the rapid introduction of broadband service in underserved areas. Unlike alternative proposals, this approach also is most likely to result in auctioning of the EBS white space without the years of delay that otherwise would be required to identify the specific geographic areas available at auction.”