SAS Needs to Be Final Word in CBRS Frequency Assignments, Cable Interests Say
All commercial operators of the 3.5 GHz citizens broadband radio service band need to be subject to spectrum access system (SAS) controlled frequency assignment, and letting any subset of operators opt out would lead to inefficient spectrum usage and undermine…
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general authorized access (GAA) and priority access license (PAL) deployments. That was the argument NCTA and representatives from Charter Communications, Comcast, CableLabs and Midcontinent Communications brought to Wireless Chief Don Stockdale and Office of Engineering and Technology head Julius Knapp, relayed a docket 17-258 posting Thursday. The cable interests said the proposed opt-out -- with GAA users able to use any channel not occupied by an incumbent government or PAL user -- isn't consistent with Part 96 rules. The cable interests said the agency should make clear that the SAS "is the ultimate authority" in performing GAA resource allocation and that all users have to abide with SAS-controlled frequency selection.