Interagency Kerfuffle Shouldn’t Slow Use of 24 GHz Band for 5G, ACT Official Says

The 24 GHz band is important to 5G and the FCC should be sure it ends up in the hands of providers, said Joel Thayer, ACT|The App Association policy counsel, in an American Enterprise Institute interview by visiting fellow Shane Tews posted Monday. “The good news is that the 24 GHz auction is over, and there seems to be little appetite to undo it.” Thayer said the record is clear: “NTIA has found no interference issues for incumbent government users (including NASA and NOAA’s National Weather Service) with the concurrent use of commercial wireless services in its two-year long investigation. Even after the State Department, the main arbiter of interagency disputes, weighed in and sided with the FCC, these two agencies still disagree with their sister agencies and maintain their objections to the 24 GHz auction.”