[06-20-12] AT&T<\/b> and SiriuxXM<\/b> filed a joint proposal to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)<\/b> to propose a solution to some longstanding interference concerns between AT&T\u2019s unused spectrum in the 2.3 GHz band and Sirius\u2019s satellite radio service, the companies announced June 19.<\/p>\n
In the proposal, AT&T agreed to give up about 10MHz of its Wireless Communication Services (WCS) spectrum as a \u201cguard band\u201d to prevent interference with Sirius\u2019s satellite transmission. The proposal also includes changes to the rules governing spectrum in the 2.3GHz band, making it easier for AT&T to use this spectrum for its 4G LTE network. LightSquared had similar interference issues earlier this year, which prevented the FCC from authorizing its spectrum license.
\n In a June 19 research note, Guggenheim Partners Analyst Paul Gallant said the FCC\u2019s approval of AT&T\u2019s proposal could hurt satellite provider Dish Network and wholesale 4G wireless service provider Clearwire.
\n \u201cIf AT&T can use its 2.3MHz spectrum for LTE, it may not need to buy spectrum from Dish. And it may not need to partner with Clearwire,\u201d said Gallant. \u201cAlso, if AT&T can acquire some of the other WCS licenses from parties that currently appear unlikely to build, for example NextWave, Dish and Clearwire could become less attractive spectrum targets for AT&T.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[06-20-12] AT&T and SiriuxXM filed a joint proposal to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to propose a solution to some longstanding interference concerns between AT&T\u2019s unused spectrum in the 2.3 GHz band and Sirius\u2019s satellite radio service, the companies announced June 19. In the proposal, AT&T agreed to give up about 10MHz of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}