The FCC should stick with a three-tiered framework...

The FCC should stick with a three-tiered framework as proposed by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in developing rules for the 3550-3700 MHz band, Google representatives said in a meeting with Louis Peraertz, aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. The FCC will take up a rulemaking on the shared use of the band at its April 23 open meting. Google said the rules should mandate “broad eligibility for the secondary (priority access) tier of users,” according to an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1hPMCcI). The rules should also specify “general authorized access wherever priority access reservations are not in use” and management through a spectrum access system (SAS), the company said. “In particular, we emphasized that an SAS can adequately protect both government incumbents and priority access users,” Google said. “We also stressed that the Commission should set baseline requirements for an SAS but allow SAS providers to innovate and differentiate among themselves in offering more sophisticated technologies that enable increased spectrum utilization.”