Mark Crosby, EWA Chief Strategy Officer
Unleashed and unvarnished, Mark provides his unique commentary on important telecom policy issues of the day.
September 21, 2021
This past week, FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly asked whether certain information collection mandates by the FCC are “truly justified,” noting that certain rules stay in place past any useful purpose, while the burden can accumulate unnoticed for segments of the industry. What an incredible observation and call for action, which has EWA’s total...
September 21, 2021
Many suspecting licensees, along with their wireless service providers, are contacting EWA asking “are these guys for real” after receiving misleading communications from “Federal Licensing, Inc. Publication Division” stating that all licensees “of the Private Land Mobile radio service to maintain a current copy of the FCC Rules and Regulations...
September 21, 2021
For the record, while Federal Licensing, Inc. may have a “Renewal/Modification Division,” the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not. We repeat – the FCC does not have a “Renewal/Modification Division.” We bring this to our member’s attention as another in a series of Federal Licensing, Inc. campaigns to secure monies from unsuspecting...
September 21, 2021
Washington County, Oregon, with a population of 563,000, is currently licensed for over seventy (!) 800 MHz channels, but apparently the seventy plus channels provide insufficient spectrum capacity despite advances in system design and the application of digital technologies. Stating that its system is at full capacity and that it has completely...
September 21, 2021
Before we get to this week’s news highlights (in EWA's member newsletter The Insider), I’m compelled to comment in response to the FCC’s back-to-back denials of waiver requests (see related stories below) from business enterprises that sought permission to use spectrum capacity that, while admittedly assigned for eligible classes of users other...
September 21, 2021
Sometimes the magic works, sometimes the magic fails miserably. Our readers know that a long, long time ago when EWA was known as ITA, ITA entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the FCC’s Compliance and Information Bureau (now the Enforcement Bureau) with the objective of, among other enviable purposes, to “provide the industry with...
September 21, 2021
Well, let it be officially noted that I was unequivocally in error drawing the conclusion in earlier blogs this year that Federal License Management, LLC is an alias created by Federal Licensing, Inc. In fact, as was communicated to me very clearly in a Cease and Desist request from the law offices of Jane Smedley Anzalone, Esq., the two...
September 21, 2021
This is an updated version of our earlier article covering the shenanigans of Federal Licensing, Inc. (“Federal Licensing”), and continues to serve as a warning to you and your customers who may receive this outfit’s "I’m here to save you" solicitations.
September 21, 2021
Many of our wireless sales and service member organizations are lamenting the fact that manufacturers from Asia are selling radio devices that are not only exceedingly inexpensive, but come equipped with instructions on how to tune the portable radios to potentially hundreds of channels ranging from 136-174 MHz and 400-512 MHz without regard to...
September 21, 2021
It is always wise only ask those questions where you have a good idea what the answer will be. In the case of asking for FCC clarification regarding to what extent frequency advisory committees are to consider non-compliant wideband licenses in the 150-470 MHz band during spectrum analyses, perhaps we should have left well enough alone. I was...