License Exempt Alliance (LEA) urged FCC to reject petition for re...
License Exempt Alliance (LEA) urged FCC to reject petition for reconsideration by Telesaurus Holdings on Commission’s spread spectrum order that was designed to improve spectrum sharing by unlicensed devices operating at 902-928 MHz. Rules benefit wireless ISPs and equipment…
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vendors because they promote new digital technologies and efficient operation of frequency-hopping spread spectrum systems, said LEA, which is part of Wireless Communications Assn. Telesaurus asked FCC to defer applying May order to license-exempt services in band until FCC acted on pending petition for rulemaking by Progeny LMS. Progeny owns Location & Monitoring Service (LMS) licenses in band and asked FCC earlier this year to relax certain restrictions on type and content of message and spectrum aggregation. Progeny sought changes in limits on types of services LMS operators could offer. Company asked FCC to revisit safe harbor rule that protected license-exempt operations by defining situations in which they wouldn’t be assumed to cause harmful interference to LMS operations in that band. LEA raised concerns about Telesaurus proposal to do away with all license-exempt operations in 902-928 MHz. It opposed any delay in rules for license-exempt services to give FCC time to examine proposals by Progeny and Telesaurus that could limit all license-exempt operations in band. LEA argued that order on which Telesaurus was seeking reconsideration didn’t involve LMS service, FCC’s LMS rules or regulatory status of license-exempt operations at 902-928 MHz. LEA said order would further FCC’s spread spectrum rules by allowing continued development of new wireless devices that could operate in license-exempt bands. “With no supporting arguments save for its anti-Part 15 rhetoric, Telesaurus would have the Commission reverse field and mark a path toward restricting or even eliminating license-exempt operations in the 902-928 MHz band and therefore nullify all it has done to promote such operations,” LEA said. Intersil and Symbol Technologies also opposed Telesaurus petition, calling it “speculative.” Petition failed to demonstrate FCC should alter finding that increased modulation flexibility for Part 15 wasn’t in public interest, Intersil and Symbol said. Agere Systems also disputed arguments of Telesaurus and Progeny, saying petitions marked “attempt by LMS licensees to radically change the LMS from what it was intended to be when it was established by the Commission.”