Census Tract PALs for 3.5 GHz Band Means IoT Auction Activity, GE Says

The FCC's keeping census-tract licensing for the 3.5 GHz band will mean General Electric will bid on census tract priority access licenses and become a citizens broadband radio service licensee, while the company's industrial and infrastructure customers will bid on even more PALs to build out private LTE networks with GE for IoT applications, it told an aide to Commissioner Mike O'Rielly, recounted a docket 17-258 filing Friday. Industrial and infrastructure interests "will compete vigorously" in census-tract based license auctions, the company said.