Joint Comments Urging the FCC to Replace Current Sharing Framework in the mmWave UMFUS Bands

OTI and Public Knowledge submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission, urging the Commission to replace the current sharing framework in the mmWave UMFUS bands with a light-licensing and automated database coordination approach, already successfully employed in the 70/80/90 GHz bands. This framework will streamline the registration process, provide the NGSO satellite industry with the FSS gateway earth stations needed to support flourishing growth in demand, protect the reasonable expectations of terrestrial licensees to continue their very localized and mostly indoor capacity deployments, and ensure all vacant spectrum is made available to ensure an abundance of ubiquitous connectivity options.