Comments on: What’s Going on with the 3.65 GHz Band? http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/04/13/whats-going-on-with-the-365-ghz-band/ Wimax and other wireless related information. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:50:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Steve Stroh http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/04/13/whats-going-on-with-the-365-ghz-band/#comment-141 Steve Stroh Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:58:16 +0000 http://www.thefinalmile.net/blog/2006/04/13/whats-going-on-with-the-365-ghz-band/#comment-141 The contention protocol requirement for the proposed 3.65 GHz band is to allow equitable sharing of the band in a geographic area with a minimum of interference to the various users. It was deliberate on the part of the FCC not to mandate a contention protocol, but to let the industry "sort it out" as to what makes the most sense to the industry as a whole. The contention protocol requirement is not intended to protect the satellite earth stations - that's done by the FCC mandating geographic exclusion zones. If you wish to operate 3.65 within those exclusion zones, you need to obtain concurrence from the operator of the satellite earth station. The contention protocol requirement for the proposed 3.65 GHz band is to allow equitable sharing of the band in a geographic area with a minimum of interference to the various users. It was deliberate on the part of the FCC not to mandate a contention protocol, but to let the industry “sort it out” as to what makes the most sense to the industry as a whole.

The contention protocol requirement is not intended to protect the satellite earth stations - that’s done by the FCC mandating geographic exclusion zones. If you wish to operate 3.65 within those exclusion zones, you need to obtain concurrence from the operator of the satellite earth station.

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