Workshop to Discuss 600 MHz Band Plan

Federal Communications Commission
Friday, May 3, 2013
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As part of its Learn Everything About Reverse-Auctions Now Program (LEARN), the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) will host a workshop on Friday, May 3, 2013 to discuss technical aspects of the 600 MHz band plan that will result from the broadcast television incentive auction.

At the workshop, a panel of FCC experts will lead a day-long roundtable discussion with stakeholders on how best to achieve the FCC’s five policy goals in crafting a 600 MHz band plan. The goal is to evaluate and quantify technical tradeoffs among the proposed 600 MHz band plan, alternative band plan proposals in the Commission’s NPRM, and other proposals put forward by commenters.

Workshop participants will discuss the following technical issues that have been raised in the record:

• mobile antenna issues,
• high power services in the duplex gap and intermodulation issues,
• harmonics interference,
• co-channel interference,
• filter pass band, and
• duplexing approaches permitted in the band.

Workshop participants will focus on technical issues involving licensed, flexible use wireless services in the 600 MHz band and interference issues raised by the coexistence of mobile services and television stations in the band. Related band plan issues, such as the use of guard bands or channel 37 by various licensed or unlicensed transmissions, may be the focus of a future LEARN workshop.