Federal Communications Commission FCC 07-163 
STATEMENT OF 
COMMISSIONER DEBORAH TAYLOR TATE
Amendment of Part 101 of the Commission’s Rules to Modify Antenna Requirements for the 
10.7 – 11.7 GHz Band; Nextlink Wireless, Inc.; First Avenue Networks, Inc.; Telecom 
Transport Management, Inc.; Conterra Ultra Broadband, LLC; WT Docket No. 07-54, RM-
11043.
This order provides the kind of useful regulatory relief that is too often overlooked in the good 
work of the Commission.  In adopting this order, the Commission enables the use of smaller, two-foot 
antennas by Fixed Service (FS) licensees in the 10.7 – 11.7 GHz band, while confirming its commitment 
to avoid harmful interference to existing Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) licensees that also use the band.  
Fixed Service licensees will be able to offer service from locations that cannot or will not allow for larger 
antennas that were previously required as a result of the Commission’s rules, thus enabling expansion in 
more areas and more potential entrants in the market.  These licensees provide broadband services to 
schools and libraries and businesses, wireless backhaul to cellular carriers, and other services.  As 
advances in technology surge ahead and the Commission continues to make more spectrum available to 
provide highly valued services, fixed services will be increasingly important in providing part of the 
backbone of this broadband infrastructure.  
I am, therefore, pleased to support this item.  I thank the Chairman for his leadership in getting 
this issue before the Commission, as well as the staff of the Wireless Bureau for their hard work on the 
item.