EchoStar, RKF Refute DirecTV Criticism of Latest 12 GHz Study
EchoStar and RKF Engineering slammed criticism in the latest Dish Network report on safe use of fixed wireless in the lower 12 GHz band by DirecTV (see 2312270045). The report showed that higher-power point-to-multipoint fixed service in the 12.2-12.7 GHz…
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band is “eminently feasible,” said a filing Wednesday in docket 20-443. “DIRECTV offers no concrete data or analysis establishing actual risk of interference from properly coordinated Fixed 5G deployments,” EchoStar said: “It would disserve the public interest to foreclose high-power fixed broadband in the 12.2 GHz band based on unproven ‘what ifs.’”