Wireless communications systems and methods related to performing initial network access procedures using shared resources are provided. A first wireless communication device transmits, in a first frequency band, a random access request to a first network. The first wireless communication device receives, in response to the random access request, a random access response from a second wireless communication device of the first network. The random access response is in a second frequency band allocated to the first network for time-division duplexing (TDD) communications. The second frequency band is different than the first frequency band.