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REGULATORY AGENCIES are coordinating on a draft FCC notice of inquiry to explore “repurposing spectrum in the 12.7-13.25 GHz band for next-generation wireless technologies,” the FCC chairwoman said.
September 21, 2022

The process of developing the “national spectrum strategy” will need to “solicit and incorporate feedback” from civil society, industry, stakeholders and the public, the NTIA administrator said.

NATIONAL RULES respond to sub-regional guidance on S-band, RLAN, broadband wireless, extended C-band, 12.75-13.25 GHz, and MSS, S-PCS, and related to Inmarsat, Iridium, Thuraya and SpaceChecker, draft changes indicated.
September 21, 2022

Draft changes to nine technical regulations were teed-up nationally, were cited, but were not correctly linked, nor obviously described, to trade partners.
“EQUITIES” IN 3.1 to 3.45 GHz, which are “critical” to national security, would require “two decades and hundreds of billions of dollars” in order to vacate, the Department of Defense chief information officer said: Sharing is a must.
September 19, 2022

An advanced sharing approach appears unlikely to garner international uptake. … / …

Add (21 Sept): NTIA is closely following developments in the 3.1 to 3.45 GHz range, Alan Davidson, the NTIA administrator said during the agency’s 19 Sept. spectrum symposium.: “If we can get this band right, we could unleash billions of dollars, maybe hundreds of billions of dollars in economic activity.”  He referred also to possible gains for national security, competitiveness and public safety.  More work is needed, he said.  
TIME, REDUNDANCY, alternatives in response to “significant risk of harmful interference” may provide ways of “distributing key data” to preserve NOAA’s “ability to carry out its critical missions,” NTIA’s acting chief counsel said referring to the bid for allocation and service rules for 1675-1680 MHz.
September 15, 2022

AccuWeather, Inc.
Air Line Pilots Association, Intl.,
ALERT Users Group,
American Geophysical Union,
American Meteorological Society,
American Weather and Climate Industry Association,
GeoOptics, Inc.,
National Weather Association,
Microcom Environmental,
PlanetIQ,
The Semaphore Group,
Space Science and Engineering Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison University,
Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
… / … Clarification (27 Sept. 2022) — WRW Sept. 19 p1:  The meteorological-, Earth science- and aviation-related organizations reportedly followed previous practices and guidance for the submittal to the FCC in response to possible additional sharing in 1675-1680 MHz. The study was available in the FCC proceeding despite the dead link. One concern of the proponent’s was the report’s delay, which was done in 2020. Another concern was our characterization of the NTIA letter, which appeared to provide greater deference to possible sharing than the study found.

RECEIVER MANUFACTURERS could leverage industry, federal collaboration on a “sensible criterion for harmful interference,” and discreet regulatory stability that evolves after expected time increments, spectrum and PNT experts suggested in a Congressionally-mandated National Academies of Sciences report.
September 14, 2022

Positioning the FCC to voice its own positions on factual questions may produce more accepted sharing outcomes, and reduce stakeholders’ interest in filing the most polarizing positions possible.

PUBLIC COMMENT period teed-up on extending regulatory framework to reflect new uses… SPACE EXPLORER platform leverages satellite network filings, certain regulatory data …
September 14, 2022

Lunar communications … / … Space regulatory explorer – https://www.itu.int/itu-r/space/apps/public/spaceexplorer/networks-explorer
DOMESTIC MEASURES circulated for NGSO SYSTEM Ku-band constellation systems at 1,200 kilometers … DOMESTIC MEASURES for 920 MHz low-power wireless access systems…
September 14, 2022

Int’l Trade
REQUEST TO WAIVE dual-mode requirement, allow ATC base station downlink transmissions in the 1526-1536 MHz band at a higher EIRP level, and to extend OOBE to mobile gear may prompt stronger concerns than those voiced in the U.S., civil aviation experts said.
September 13, 2022

Changes to Base Station, Mobile Gear Rules Sought to Spur Ancillary Operations
LIMITED ATC TRIAL deployment scrubbed to make time for talks with DoD, NTIA and MSS operators, attorneys suggested.
September 13, 2022

The Congressionally-mandated review provides an opportunity to reconsider Ligado’s authorization: federal regulator
MIFR ENTRIES under RR No. 11.41 reflect one of several disqualifying factors in WRC-23 consideration of a regional satellite system for the GMDSS, an industry group of experts suggested.
September 10, 2022

RR No. 11.41: “After a notice is returned under [RR] No. 11.38, should the notifying administration resubmit the notice and insist upon its reconsideration, the [BR] shall enter the assignment in the Master [International Frequency] Register with an indication of those administrations whose assignments were the basis of the unfavourable finding.”
SPIN-UP OF ITU-R work to support comprehensive, commercial lunar communications and relay services, U.S. proposals suggested.
September 9, 2022

List of bands eyeballed between about 400 MHz and 27.5 GHz, with immediate attention to S-, X-, and Ka-band.

OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENTS of aviation operations in very close proximity to terrestrial radio and other infrastructure was teed-up in a refresh of expert-level talks on RF for civil aviation, a note from the incoming leader indicated.
September 8, 2022

New guidance may help to better describe how new aviation systems needing allocation changes are teed-up, and ways to fold new systems into existing aviation allocations.
SPECTRAL MASK anomaly stemming from ITU-R guidance on out-of-band emissions needs a tweak to ensure the reference bandwidth is quoted when defining power limits, said background information to shape talks on the guidance, which the FCC proposed in 2018 to incorporate by reference.
September 7, 2022

Terrestrial interests had opposed updating a 50-year-old rule, which may soon be needed to respond to more dynamic aviation and maritime spectrum use practices.

CORRECTIONS SUGGESTED to interference criteria for certain MetAids uses and 400.15-406 MHz and 1668.4-1700 MHz… 5 GHz WAS/RLAN technical conditions circulated to trading partners by a regional bloc..
September 6, 2022

Tweaks eyeball MetAids systems use associated with GPS, RDF, drop and rocket …/… WAS implementation mandate …/…
CIRCUMSTANCES UNIQUE to PP-22 empower ITU member states to profoundly improve the trajectory of nearly two dozen countries, to better the lives of millions of citizens, and to have a hand in shaping world history for good, our assessment suggested.
September 5, 2022

Secret Ballots to Reflect Indelible International Sentiment on War in Public Policymaking
ITU EDGES toward a degree of public accountability when problems between neighbors reflect poorly on its stewardship, a proposal to its top policy-setting conference suggested.
September 4, 2022

Proposal suggests mainstreaming a common-sense, modern impulse that 10 years ago could only be whispered.
NOMINATION PERIOD closes on most active election cycle for ITU’s top five spots since 2006, our assessment showed.
September 1, 2022

ITU staffers cap diverse choice of candidates.
IMPULSE TO SPUR RPAS C2 links in MSS for civil aviation garnered backing from independent radio experts who provide guidance to regulators, a draft meeting report said. 
September 1, 2022

Independent experts nodded approval toward modernizing approaches to leverage L-band spectrum for civil aviation; more work remains.

EARTH OBSERVATION payload transmission requirements may prompt future WRC consideration above 37.5 GHz… DOMESTIC TESTING regime based on ETSI specs… DOMESTIC CODE of practice for fiber installation leverages ITU-T guidance…
August 31, 2022

Frequencies outlined for possible regulatory guidance for Earth observation payload data transmissions …

Final rule with LTE/IMT-2020 technical requirements circulated to trading partners four years later …

National code of practice for installation of fibre cables builds on guidance from South Africa, ITU-T … …/…

Clarification (WRW Aug. 22 p3): U.S. experts working informally on satellite issues declined to agree to advance a suggestion to include work on regulatory measures to spur lunar and cislunar operations for the upcoming meeting of the FCC WRC-23 Advisory Committee, speakers indicated during a 30 August teleconference. The bid for an agenda item at the subsequent WRC was nevertheless submitted to the FCC ECFS system — 16-185 — which is associated with WAC-23, and which remains entitled: “2019 World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee.”
OUTLINE OF APPLICATIONS takes shape in the bid to track evolution of RFI, a tally indicated.
August 30, 2022

A 50-times stronger radio-interference source was illuminated in western Xinjiang province, China, near border crossings and centers of targeted minority populations.
INT’L RADIO allocation subset — MetAids (space weather) — proposed to cover types of sensors that detect natural emissions, and types to detect signals from other instruments, a readout on draft text for the WRC-23 preparatory report said.
August 29, 2022

Definitions for MetAids Advance to Better Gauge Space Conditions for Satellites and Space Travel
GOVERNMENT-LICENSED use of meteorological frequencies eyeballed by space launch industry, an update on regulatory collaboration in a European country said.
August 28, 2022

National Bid Considers Leveraging MetAids Allocations to Support Space Industry