FCC Approves 42 GHz NPRM Aimed at Wireless Experimentation

Wireless Future Project director Michael Calabrese is quoted in a Communications Daily article about the Federal Communications Commission’s vote to launch a proceeding to consider sharing models in 500 megahertz of spectrum in the 42 GHz band, with Calabrese describing how this could affect the state of play.

“We strongly agree with the commission that a shared licensing framework making this high-capacity spectrum available to a very wide range of fixed wireless ISPs, enterprises and other users is the best use of the 42 GHz band,” emailed Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Program at New America. Coordinated sharing will be “particularly powerful” if the FCC adopts a common framework for the lower 37 and 42 GHz bands, as suggested by NCTA, he said. “Fixed wireless deployments are exploding, adding options and competition for high-capacity broadband at lower prices,” he said: Wide-channel high-band spectrum “can fuel and accelerate this positive trend.”