NTIA is looking at how to narrow exclusion...

NTIA is looking at how to narrow exclusion zones needed to protect federal agency transmissions in the 3.5 GHz band, spectrum the FCC has targeted for sharing and for the use of small cells, NTIA Association Administrator Karl Nebbia said Thursday. Nebbia offered a report at the Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee meeting. (See related report above.) NTIA has been working with the FCC and the Department of Defense to look at whether the government can reduce the size of the zones using “new information we have, new analytical techniques,” he said. When the FCC approved a further NPRM on the 3.5 GHz on the band in April (CD April 24 p4), Commissioners Ajit Pai and Mike O'Rielly complained that the proposed exclusion zones are too big for the band to reach its potential as a laboratory for spectrum sharing.