CTIA Interest in 29.1-29.25 GHz Band for 5G Senseless, Iridium Says
Iridium is trying to fence off the 29.1-29.25 GHz band from CTIA's proposed high-band spectrum road map, saying terrestrial mobile services there wouldn't fit terrestrial 5G use. In a docket 14-177 filing posted Friday, Iridium said the FCC explicitly didn't…
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rope in the 150 MHz as possible terrestrial mobile spectrum in the 2015 high-band spectrum NPRM, and CTIA in its road map (see 1707140055) doesn't give much reason for changing that, especially since the 29.1-29.25 GHz band is far smaller than the other contiguous blocks in which CTIA wants terrestrial mobile operations. Iridium also said its own co-primary status in the band means exclusive terrestrial use there, as CTIA wants, can't happen. Iridium said network operators and equipment makers agree that terrestrial 5G will need more than 150 MHz of contiguous spectrum, and the band can't be harmonized internationally since the ITU hasn't designated it for consideration as a 5G candidate band. With the band supporting a co-primary incumbent satellite network, the odds it could also support nationwide terrestrial 5G are "slim to non-existent," Iridium said. CTIA didn't comment.