Proposed FCC Auction of C-Band Increases Competition for Allocations

A recent Plenary session to approve texts to be included in the Final Acts was scheduled to end at noon Thursday 21 November 2019 and delegates at WRC-19 faced a daunting workload as the conferees try to reach consensus on several remaining issues including the agenda for the next WRC.

Small Satellites which are increasingly commercial have been granted access to the space operations bands at 137/149MHz away from amateur allocations. The amateur secondary allocation at 5725-5850 MHz, which includes an amateur-satellite C-band downlink at 5830-5850 MHz, is the subject of an unresolved conflict over parameters for wireless access systems including radio local area networks. 5 GHz Wi-Fi will see most expansion below amateur radio in the 5150-5250 band reducing it impact on our 5725-5850 range. An article published by CNBC, also on November 18, a news item by Michael Sheetz, "Satellite stock Intelsat drops 40% after FCC 5G decision", discusses increasing pressure in the United States due to a proposed public auction of 280 megahertz of the C-band spectrum.

This article can be accessed in entirety - https://tinyurl.com/ANS-328-CNBC-5G-Article