The Federal Communications Commission has opened a comment period on Citizens Broadband Radio Service application and bidding procedures. Of particular concern are rules for auctioning priority access licenses (PALs) in the 3550-3650 MHz portion of the 3.5 GHz band. The PAL licenses would offer quality of service protection for licensed users.
Bidding in this auction, which is designated as Auction 105, is scheduled to commence on June 25, 2020. The FCC proposes to offer seven PALs in each county-based license area, for a total of 22,631 PALs nationwide.
Each PAL will consist of a 10-megahertz unpaired channel assigned by automated frequency coordinators, known as Spectrum Access Systems. Consistent with the Commission’s rules, Priority Access Licensees would be permitted to aggregate up to four PALs in any license area.
Both private networks and carrier 5G services are expected to use CBRS, but it seems likely many private enterprise networks could use best-effort access, and even some service provider implementations may do so.
Mobile Experts believes such private enterprise networks will use CBRS, as will service providers, to support their 5G services. Although the early thinking was that CBRS would use 4G transmission platforms, service providers now will be able to use CBRS spectrum to support their 5G networks.
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