FCC Eyes 42 GHz for Shared Use

Wireless Future Project director Michael Calabrese is quoted in a FierceWireless 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.

Michael Calabrese, director of Wireless Future, Open Technology Institute at New America, said his organization agrees that a shared licensing framework is the best use of the 42 GHz band, making this spectrum available to a wide range of fixed wireless ISPs, enterprises and other users.

“Coordinated sharing will be particularly powerful if the FCC adopts a common framework for the lower 37 and 42 GHz bands, giving operators as much as 1100 megahertz of bandwidth,” he said in a statement provided to Fierce. “Fixed wireless deployments are exploding, adding options and competition for high-capacity broadband at lower prices. As open access bands, wide-channel millimeter wave spectrum can fuel and accelerate this positive trend.”