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...
“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...
EWA was being a bit too reserved when it stated in November 2011 FCC comments that “the frequency selection process has historically proven to be a rather cumbersome exercise” for those public safety licensees who seek to deploy Vehicular Repeater Service (VRS) units. Rather cumbersome? It’s easier to plan a successful mission to land humans on...
American Time & Signal (ATS) has chosen to confront EWA’s request for clarification regarding the FCC’s decision to permit ATS to license what are fixed location wireless clock installations as mobile stations under a private carrier license granted to ATS. Specifically, EWA asked the FCC whether the installations should be considered as...
We are sure that the industry’s message to the FCC was near unanimous, namely, that T-Band is an incredible spectrum resource that is used extensively by both public safety and non-public safety entities, and that the legislation instructing the FCC to take away public safety’s T-Band use is an incredibly flawed telecom policy. There will never be...
EWA’s Board of Directors convened its 2013 Spring Board of Directors meeting this past week in La Quinta, California. Discussions concerning advocacy efforts focused on EWA’s efforts to preserve spectrum allocated for industrial/business (I/B) uses with specific attention on the continuing T-Band reallocation nightmare and increased incidences of...
This past May, EWA suggested that the FCC clarify what registration information is required for embedded signal boosters and to provide an online database of already certified devices that meet the Consumer Signal Booster Network Protection Standard. Later, both Verizon Wireless (Verizon) and CTIA - The Wireless Association® (CTIA) filed comments...
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?...
Let’s hope that pilots have visual contact with the ground around a 175 nautical mile radius from Las Vegas from May 16 – 27. It seems that with the FCC’s blessing, LightSquared will be conducting tests of its terrestrial broadband service within this area at that time. But in a bizarre twist of Federal Government oversight, the Federal Aviation...