EWA Urges Targeted FCC Action on Public Safety Signal Booster Interference

November 18, 2025

The Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today supporting efforts by the Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) to address persistent interference issues caused by improperly deployed signal boosters affecting public safety radio systems. In its filing, EWA encouraged the FCC to initiate a rulemaking that both acknowledges the decade-long history of harmful interference and advances attainable solutions.

EWA agrees that the state of public safety BDAs is not up to minimum public safety standards and strongly supports the goal of eliminating interference to these systems. At the same time, it urged the FCC to tailor any new regulatory framework to apply only to signal boosters that retransmit public safety frequencies. The deployment of Class A signal boosters by industrial/business licensees retransmitting their own frequencies to improve coverage in their own facilities should be exempt.

EWA also recommended a set of targeted measures, some of which were also proposed by SBC, that the Commission could adopt on an expedited basis. These modest rule changes include (1) requiring registration of Class A and Class B signal boosters, licensee, call sign, frequency(s), street address and coordinates, and mandatory maintenance obligations; (2) requiring an FCC Registration Number (FRN) to ensure contact information is available should interference occur; and (3) modifying section 90.427 to prohibit programming a signal booster on public safety frequencies without the express written consent from the affected public safety licensee.

Robin J. Cohen, EWA President stated that, “EWA absolutely supports the initiative to mitigate harmful interference to public safety licensees from signal boosters, and we suggest that practical, first-step solutions may be implemented to benefit the public safety community.”

About the Enterprise Wireless Alliance

EWA is an FCC-certified frequency advisory committee that provides license preparation, spectrum management and associated services to business enterprises, private carriers, public safety entities and wireless sales and service organizations. Membership within EWA is open to users of wireless communications systems, vendors, system operators and service organizations. Additional information about membership and services is available at www.enterprisewireless.org.

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