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...
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...
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...
We get it. The Pai Commission does not like determining spectrum policy through waivers. So, it comes as no surprise to the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) when we attempt to accom-modate business enterprise spectrum needs by accessing channels that have remained unassigned for years or decades through waiver requests, that our efforts are...
Attending IWCE is always productive for the Enterprise Wireless Alliance as it provides us with a great opportunity to mingle with members and industry friends at our booth and educational sessions in which EWA representatives participate. Staff joined industry leaders at sessions addressing the proposal to create a 900 MHz broadband opportunity...
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.
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...
In an Order adopted March 11, the FCC announced that a man who intentionally jammed GPS signals at the Newark Liberty International Airport, received a fine of $2,360 and an installment payment plan. Perhaps we can take comfort in the fact that that should he default, the FCC advised that it will impose an additional $29,515 forfeiture.
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Earlier this week, the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) filed comments in response to APCO’s opposition to EWA’s request for clarification of the Commission’s decision to exempt public safety licensees from the new license renewal certification requirements. Contrary to APCO’s characteristically emotional assertion that EWA was out of line...
Presumably on the notion that nothing ventured is nothing gained, License Acquisitions, LLC (LA), a new member of the M2M Networks/Smartcomm family of companies, requested a waiver to reinstate four 800 MHz Guard Band licenses that are to be moved to the Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio (ESMR) Band. LA only holds 11 licenses with two expiration...