FCC Should Allow Robust Unlicensed Operations in Duplex Gap, Google Says

The record developed so far supports the wisdom of the FCC’s proposal to permit personal/portable unlicensed operations in a 6 MHz channel of the duplex gap after the TV incentive auction, Google said in comments filed in docket 12-268. Opponents of unlicensed devices in the gap make some wrong assumptions in pointing to potential problems, Google said. Opponents “assume unjustifiable receiver-sensitivity levels,” fail to take account of expected attenuation and “arbitrarily handicap LTE performance to suggest" LTE devices "are more susceptible to interference than real devices,” Google said.