“This action will serve to stabilize the spectral environment while the Commission considers issues surrounding future use of the T-Band.” This was the statement in the FCC’s announcement that it was imposing a limited suspension of the acceptance and processing of certain applications for Part 22 and 90 systems operating in the 470-512 MHz band...
The FCC released a News Release earlier today announcing the 45-day public testing of the “First Television White Spaces Database.” This is important news as one of the more critical requirements that must be accommodated before white space devices are certified to roam free within TV and land mobile spectrum is that they know to recognize the “do...
The FCC’s Office of Engineering Technology recently announced that the testing of the first TV White Spaces database demonstrated that the database “worked.” Ok, a couple definitions of “worked” include that a certain activity performed a function as intended or operated as expected. In this case, we suspect that the FCC’s pronouncement presumably...
EWA had no choice but to file a Second TETRA Clarification Request with the Commission on October 26th as the agency just seems to keep missing critical information in its Orders and, at least in EWA’s view, has provided inconsistent statements on how applicants may best license this technology. Unfortunately, one of the unintended consequences...
There has been a lot of industry concern expressed by those that have been working diligently to comply with the FCC’s narrowbanding mandate, both service providers and licensees alike, about Congressman Rothman’s (D-NJ) bill (H.R.3430) that proposes to extend the narrowbanding mandate by two years. Does this have any chance? Are you kidding me?...
I suspect that many folks this time of year have wish lists. I do. Wouldn’t it be nice if the FCC lifted the 900 MHz new Industrial/Business system licensing freeze that hasn’t been necessary for over two years now. As a result of the continued freeze, use of this valuable spectrum resource is lost and big time companies like UPS and John...
I read in the FCC’s releases earlier this week that Shelby County, Alabama was granted waivers, in one respect a partial waiver, to operate a VHF trunked system that will use both public safety and Industrial/Business frequencies. Good for them. The details may be reviewed in the Commission’s Order, but know that EWA had weighed in previously in...
For a while there, there just didn’t seem to be a lot of wireless regulatory news to report.
Effective Monday, March 12th, there are now three and only three public safety organizations that have the coveted FCC-certified frequency advisory committee medallion. On February 22nd, IMSA/IAFC and FCCA announced that they had joined their respective frequency coordination forces under a single organization called the Public Safety...
