How does this affect new installations? On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Fred Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/6/2017 12:48 PM, Marco Coelho wrote: > > How about towers that were installed previously? > > > "Grandfathered Wireless Broadband Service" (3.65) licenses will remain in > effect until 2020. If they expire before then, they can be renewed for up > to that date. If they happened to be issued in the 2010-2013 time frame > before the CBSD docket opened, then they get their full 10 years, which can > make some of them run as late as March, 2023. For strange reasons I won't > get into here, that can have unfortunate consequences, so there may be > pressure on some WISPs to transition them anyway in 2020. > > Grandfathered devices fall into two categories. If you Registered them in > ULS before 4/17/15 and had them in revenue service by 4/17/16, then they > become Incumbent in CBRS and are entitled to very strong protection against > other CBRS devices, on their current frequencies. That can have a 17 km > radius, IIRC. If they were not registered, they get protection to 5.4 km. > You can still add devices, but they are not treated the same as the ones > that were registered. So if you had registered a device on that tower, it > gets good protection until 2020. > > Once the GWBS licenses expire, the device either has to be re-approved as > a CBSD (some will, some won't) or go off the air. I'd expect the LTE and > some WiMax and other current clean-signal devices to get CBSD upgrades and > approval; I don't expect any Wi-Fi-derivative devices to do so. Just > speculating, though. > > > > On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Fred Goldstein <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 3/6/2017 12:32 PM, Marco Coelho wrote: >> >>> I've been off-line for a while. What is the latest set of decisions >>> from the FCC with the 3.65 band? >>> >>> >> A second Report and Order was issued in May, 2016. Since then, the action >> has moved to WinnForum, which is producing the standards for how to >> actually use the band. That includes protocols for how a CBRS Device (CBSD) >> will communicate with a Spectrum Authorization System (SAS) and how the >> several SASs will communicate with each other. WISPA is represented there >> by myself and Richard Bernhardt. As of now, the first release of the >> protocols has been published, basically to allow vendors to start >> development, and we're working on further versions that are actually >> practical. Some guesses are that equipment using CBRS may become available, >> with FCC-approved SAS service, sometime around the end of the year. >> >> -- >> Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net >> Interisle Consulting Group >> +1 617 795 2701 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> > > > -- > Marco C. Coelho > Argon Technologies Inc. > POB 875 > Greenville, TX 75403-0875 > 903-455-5036 <(903)%20455-5036> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing > [email protected]http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > -- > Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net > Interisle Consulting Group > +1 617 795 2701 <(617)%20795-2701> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > -- Bois d'Arc Farm Cody Bardwell Crop Operations/IT 334-654-4539
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