Use of Radio Frequencies Above 40 GHz for New Radio Applications

The Commission adopts a Second Report and Order designating the frequency spectrum band between 47.2 and 48.2 GHz for commercial use on a licensed basis. The Commission decides to permit fixed, fixed- satellite, and mobile uses consistent with the Table of Frequency Allocations governing the band. The Commission also decides to define service rules in a future rulemaking, based on the dominant use of the spectrum, and finds that the most likely dominant use will be fixed, point-to-multipoint services delivered through the deployment of fixed platforms located in the stratosphere. The Commission adopts the proposal to license operations on an area-wide basis and determines to divide the spectrum into five pairs of license blocks of 200 megahertz each pair, with each pair separated by 500 megahertz of spectrum. These actions are taken to promote the commercial availability of millimeter wave technology in providing the potentially valuable uses of licensed spectrum above 40 GHz.