Following up on White House and Department of Defense efforts to open up another 100 megahertz of midband spectrum for mobile networks, the Federal Communications Commission is set to vote later this month on plans for 3.45-3.55 GHz.
Chairman Ajit Pai announced yesterday that he is circulating a draft item that will be up for vote at the FCC’s next meeting on September 30. The commission will vote on a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to change the rules for 3.44-3.55 to allow for commercial use and coordination between federal and non-federal users in the band, as well as removing secondary, non-federal allocations from 3.3-3.55 GHz, which the Commission had already proposed doing last year.
