NTIA Pressured as It Finalizes Spectrum Strategy Implementation Plan

Wireless Future Project Director Michael Calabrese is quoted in a Communications Daily article about the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's soon-to-be-released national spectrum strategy implementation plan, with Calabrese noting that the NTIA should focus on coexistence in said plan.

“The most productive wireless ecosystem” relies on exclusively licensed, shared and licensed-by-rule spectrum, said Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Project at New America. The challenge for NTIA is that the military relies on the lower 3 GHz and 7 GHz bands, he said.

NTIA should focus on coexistence in the implementation plan, Calabrese said. While clearing a portion of military spectrum bands may be possible, “it is equally important for NTIA and DOD to agree on coexistence mechanisms that facilitate at least local and lower-power access for commercial use on a shared basis, much as the FCC’s CBRS rules allow the sharing of Navy radar spectrum,” he said.