The Office of Native Affairs and Policy and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau will hold a free, two-hour informational webinar for Tribal spectrum licensees seeking to provide broadband and other advanced wireless communications services on their rural Tribal lands.  The webinar will include an overview of basic engineering considerations involved in network design, with a focus on networks using 2.5 GHz, 3.5 GHz, and unlicensed spectrum.  The webinar will also review responsibilities and duties that come with a spectrum license.  This webinar may be of particular interest to Tribal entities that applied for licenses to use 2.5 GHz spectrum through the Commission’s Rural Tribal Priority Window.

The webinar will take place from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Eastern Time, on Thursday, January 7, 2021.

Agenda

2:00 – 2:05 p.m.: Welcome

2:05 – 3:00 p.m.: Broadband Engineering Basics
  Tom Derenge, Deputy Chief, Mobility Division

3:00 – 3:45 p.m.: Spectrum Licensees Responsibilities and Duties
  Nadja Sodos-Wallace, Special Counsel, Broadband Division
  Catherine Schroeder, Attorney Advisor, Broadband Division

3:45 – 4:00 p.m.: Questions

To register, please send an email with your name, contact information and Tribal affiliation to JanuaryWebinar@fcc.gov.  Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email with the link for the webinar.

The event will be webcast with open captioning. Reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request. Send an email to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at 202-418-0530 (voice). Please include a description of the accommodation you will need and tell us how to contact you. Requests for special accommodation should be made as early as possible. Last minute requests will be accepted but may be impossible to fill.

For questions about the webinar, please send an email to native@fcc.gov.