Outdoor facilities deployed by critical infrastructure companies should...

Outdoor facilities deployed by critical infrastructure companies should be given protected status in proposed rules for spectrum sharing in the 3.5 GHz band, said engineering firm Lockard & White in a filing at the FCC. The firm does work on behalf of electric utilities building smart grids, the filing said. The reliability and resilience of utility networks need to be “exceptionally high, so that communications are maintained, especially during emergencies such as power outages,” the firm said in a filing posted Friday in docket 12-354 (http://bit.ly/1rSVKyJ).