Wireless and Airline Industries Update FCC on Upper C-Band Discussions
CTIA, wireless carriers and representatives of the airline industry briefed aides to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and other agency staff about their work on opening the upper C band to licensed use while protecting air safety systems, said a filing posted Friday by CTIA. They updated the commission “on the efforts of the wireless and aviation industries to work together to define a consensus analytical framework for evaluating potential coexistence parameters between wireless operations above 3.98 GHz and altimeters operating in the 4.2-4.4 GHz band.”
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The meetings covered “our industries’ continued work together to establish a safe but aggressive timeline and technical parameters to enable the expansion of the upper C-Band for wireless broadband use through regular technical exchanges between subject matter experts,” the filing said. Industry “described areas of consensus achieved so far, including the opportunity to safely enable full power access for wireless operations up to 4160 MHz and potentially additional full-power access up to 4180 MHz subject to additional restrictions.”
Attending the meeting were the Aerospace Industries Association, Airlines for America, AT&T, Boeing, Garmin, Honeywell, RTX, T-Mobile and Verizon. They met with staff from the Wireless Bureau, Office of Engineering and Technology and Office of General Counsel.