FCC Hears All About How It Should Deal With the 13 GHz Band

OTI is quoted in a FierceWireless article about the comments it filed alongside Public Knowledge with regard to the Federal Communications Commission’s inquiry into how it should handle the 12.7-13.25 GHz band of spectrum, with the article highlighting the groups’ recommendation of a shared-licensed framework, should the Commission decide not to relocate incumbent services to other bands.

The Open Technology Institute (OTI) at New America and Public Knowledge (PK) said a shared-licensed framework would be a particularly good fit for the 13 GHz band if the commission decides not to relocate incumbent services to other bands.

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A shared-license framework that includes both priority access licenses and opportunistic use can also enrich and diversify the nation’s developing 5G wireless ecosystem “in a way that specifically meets the needs of smaller wireless ISPs, innovators, community anchor institutions and the tens of thousands of individual enterprises that will choose to customize their own private IoT, neutral host or access network,” according to OTI and PK.