The main area of contention as the FCC...

The main area of contention as the FCC takes up a rulemaking on the 3.5 GHz band at Wednesday’s open meeting is likely to be the exclusion zones where the band will not be available for sharing, FCC officials said. The rulemaking offers a much more detailed plan for the band, a testbed of sorts for spectrum sharing and small cells, and would create a new Part 96 to the FCC’s rules (CD April 3 p1). The FCC began its initial rulemaking in December 2012 (CD Dec 13/12 p6) and the exclusion zones in the updated proposal have changed little since then, agency officials said.