EWA Files Comments on Bristol-Myers Squibb Request for Waiver

The Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) filed supporting comments in response to a Waiver Request filed by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company to use UHF channels designated for Airport Terminal Use (ATU) at five of their plants in New Jersey and Connecticut. EWA had previously recommended use of these channels after determining that there were no other Industrial/Business (I/B) Pool channels that could be coordinated for centralized trunked FB8 status inside the Company’s campus facilities. The ATU channels are reserved within 16 kilometers of several hundred large and small airports for use by entities providing commercial air transportation services in connection with servicing and supplying aircraft. They are available on a secondary basis to other I/B entities at locations between 16 and 80 kilometers from the designated airports if limited to the confines of an industrial complex or manufacturing yard and operated with a maximum effective radiated power (ERP) of 10 watts.