Aspects of the FCC's 2024 order reallocating the 2360-2395 MHz band on a secondary basis for space launch operations (see 2412310029) need clarification or reconsideration, the Aerospace and Flight Test Radio Coordinating Council said in a petition Tuesday (docket 13-115). AFTRCC applauded the decision to make spectrum available for space launch and reentry activities but said that shouldn't "cause undue constraints on the continued primary use of the shared allocation in the band by Federal and non-Federal flight test operators." It said the agency should make clear that coordination of space launch activity with flight test operations in the upper S band will be collaborative exercises. It should also make clear that per-launch coordination is required for nonfederal flight test operations in 2360-2395 MHz in the same way it's required for primarily federal flight test operations in the band, AFTRCC said. Lastly, the FCC should clarify language in the order suggesting that the availability of the 2360-2395 MHz band for commercial space launch and reentry activity was a minimum required by Congress when the law limits permissible operations to such activity and going beyond those uses would expressly conflict with the language of the statute.

Karrier One signed an agreement with AT&T Mobility to work with the provider on enhanced domestic and international Wi-Fi offload capabilities and to accelerate the adoption of decentralized physical infrastructure networks, the company said Tuesday. “Under the agreement, Karrier One will provide AT&T Mobility and its subscribers access to an expanded network of Wi-Fi offload locations powered by Hotspot 2.0/Passpoint technology,” Karrier One said.

Seventy-one percent of consumers with home internet get their router/gateway from their ISP, Parks Associates said Tuesday. It said that, historically, more consumers reported owning their own router than renting or leasing one, but that trend reversed in the 2022-23 time frame. That coincided with the launch of Wi-Fi 6E and 7 routers, which tend to be more expensive, it said.

Anuvu is seeking a de novo review before the FCC's administrative law judge of a Wireless Bureau decision upholding a rejection of Anuvu's C-band relocation claims for reimbursement. In a docket 21-333 petition posted Monday, Anuvu said last month's bureau order upholding a C-band relocation payment clearinghouse decision that denied part of Anuvu's reimbursement claims doesn't acknowledge or address the substantive legal argument Anuvu raised.

The Open Radio Access Network Software Community (O-RAN SC) announced last week the availability of its J and K software releases. The releases “demonstrate how the O-RAN SC is meeting industry demands for open, efficient, and modular RAN software solutions,” the group said. They “also address critical issues such as interoperability, security, and scalability, paving the way for widespread adoption of open-source technologies across the telecommunications ecosystem.” The group is sponsored by the O-RAN Alliance and operated by the Linux Foundation.

The citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) band uses technology that's “simplistic” and “at this point …obsolete,” so it shouldn’t be considered the best model for sharing, Rysavy Research President Peter Rysavy said. Rysavy spoke as part of an American Enterprise Institute series on spectrum, posted Monday. He also argued that 7/8 GHz spectrum should be allocated for full-power licensed use. CBRS hasn't been very widely used because “it involves coordination between incumbents and secondary users,” and “there’s a very complicated environmental sensing capability that secondary users must rely on to detect” DOD operations.

WISPA President David Zumwalt on Friday called for changes to the BEAD program's rules to make it technology neutral. Zumwalt said the Biden administration wrongly put too much focus on fiber in developing the rules. “The mission of serving the unserved can be met with the tools that we have in place, with the service providers we have in place,” he said. “There’s no need to continue the nonsense that was put into the BEAD program from the beginning.”

GCI representatives met with FCC staff to explain the carrier’s request for clarification on the agency’s Alaska Connect Fund (ACF) order (see 2501310053). "Key changes" will make the order "more effective in serving rural Alaska," said a filing posted Friday in docket 23-328. The FCC should “clarify that the goal for all areas cannot reasonably be 5G at 35/3 or 7/1 Mbps” and “reconsider removing support and, instead, target ACF support to areas that need it,” GCI said: “Clarify the standards for being ineligible to participate in the ACF based on Alaska Plan performance. Reconsider and permit GCI to use its Anchorage consumer plans for comparable pricing.” The GCI representatives said they met with staff from the Wireless Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics.

Counsel for Assist Wireless, enTouch Wireless, Easy Wireless and Access Wireless spoke with aides to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to ask that the agency grant applications for review that they filed on upward revisions for reimbursement of services provided in the last month of the Lifeline COVID-19 waiver period. The Wireline Bureau rejected their appeals of the Universal Service Administrative Co.’s denials of the upward revisions to their Lifeline reimbursement claims, said a filing posted Thursday in docket 11-42. The bureau “wrongly found that the revisions would violate the FCC’s rules by providing reimbursements for Lifeline subscribers who were not eligible for reimbursement based on when the Bureau’s final waiver of the Lifeline usage rule ended.”

Representatives of the Association of American Railroads and major members CSX and BNSF Railway Co. discussed spectrum needs in a meeting with an aide to Chairman Brendan Carr. The representatives noted railroads’ use of spectrum in the 160-161, 219.5-222, 450 and 900 MHz and 6 GHz bands, said a filing posted Thursday in docket 17-200.