NCTA Defends Arguments Against Changing Technical Rules for the CBRS Band
NCTA vigorously defended its arguments against making major changes to the technical rules for the citizens broadband radio service band. In a filing posted Wednesday in docket 17-258, NCTA said the CBRS framework “has enabled an impressive and growing array of users and use cases in the 3.5 GHz band, reinforcing the United States’s global leadership in spectrum policy.” It said, "Higher base station power levels and a relaxed in-band emissions limit of -13 dBm/MHz, individually and together, would fundamentally alter the nature of the CBRS band and yield a multitude of harms.”
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NCTA slammed a recent EchoStar filing (see 2503250061). The commission “should be skeptical of the unreliable and erroneous technical analyses submitted by EchoStar, which purport to show that higher-power” CBRS devices “would not harm lower-power CBRS or federal incumbent operations in the band.”