Charter Communications last week provided more insight into its wireless strategy as the operator urged the FCC to limit geographic licensing of 3.5 GHz spectrum to areas “no larger than counties.”
宪章说注释在联邦通信委员会提交的情况下，当它准备在今年晚些时候进入无线市场时，有线电视运营商将遵循“内外”策略，该战略将在两个阶段中从室内转移到户外无线。
“宪章正在将其无线网络从游牧WiFi网络转变为一个通过将现有WiFi资产与多个4G和5G访问技术相结合来支持完全移动性的网络，” Charter在响应FCC通知的3.5 GHz Spectrums Spectrum spectrum spectrum。“在导航这一技术过渡时，宪章专注于“内而外”的'策略，最初专注于家庭和办公室内的高级无线解决方案，并最终扩展户外。”
The first step will begin this year with the operator offering its customers a mobile wireless service through its MVNO agreement with Verizon and utilizing Charter’s “extensive” WiFi infrastructure.
Charter, however, also hasn’t been shy about its interest in the CBRS band and is currently working with eight different vendors in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C., for its 3.5 GHz mobility use cases. The operator is also testing a fixed wireless solution in the 3.5 GHz band in six different markets.
“In the second phase, Charter plans to use the 3.5 GHz band in conjunction with its WiFi network to improve network performance and expand capacity to offer consumers a superior wireless service,” the cable operator wrote. “Charter’s intended use of this band, however, requires rules facilitating new entrants’ access to this critical spectrum.”
TheFCC目前正在考虑更改有关3.5 GHz精选许可证的法规乐队将增加许可条款，启用许可证续订并扩展地理区域以获得优先访问许可。
行业协会CTIA先前提交了评论asking the commission to modify the license areas to consist of traditional Partial Economic Areas（豌豆）而不是人口普查。在最近的文件中，Charter反驳说，将地理许可规模提高到豌豆将限制对CBR频段的访问权限，从而进入最大的现有无线载体。
“With larger license areas to cover, only those companies with national scale and an already significant wireless network presence throughout a PEA will be in a position to invest in expensive new licenses,” Charter wrote. “Indeed, should such entities require the certainty of PEA-sized service areas, they remain fully able to aggregate license holdings through the process of a fair and competitive auction of county-sized licenses.”
Charter also contended that smaller geographic license areas will speed up deployments.
“Importantly, smaller license sizes will enable new entrants to more efficiently leverage their existing infrastructure in those counties that encompass their networks. Utilizing existing networks would enable new entrants such as Charter to rapidly deploy 3.5 GHz radios throughout these county-sized licensing areas for the provision of wireless broadband service,” Charter added. “This results in more wireless service options with better throughput for more consumers in a shorter period of time.”
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