The Enterprise Wireless Association asked the FCC to act on...
The Enterprise Wireless Association asked the FCC to act on a 2008 petition for clarification it filed with Sprint Nextel asking for a tweak to the agency’s 900 MHz business and industrial/land transportation (B/ILT) license application freeze. Both asked the…
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FCC to change its policy to “permit the acceptance and processing of 900 MHz B/ILT applications prior to six months after rebanding has been completed in a NPSPAC region, provided that the application is accompanied by a letter of concurrence from Nextel” (http://xrl.us/bkypgk). The change “would provide access to vacant 900 MHz channels for business enterprise and commercial operators in areas where Sprint has determined that it does not need additional 900 MHz spectrum to meet its 800 MHz rebanding obligations,” EWA said in a filing (http://xrl.us/bkypg7) last week. EWA asked the commission to move forward on a rulemaking notice allowing the licensing of interstitial, full-power, 12.5 kHz channels in the 800 MHz band: “EWA noted that the record in response to the FCC’s request for comment on the Petition confirmed broad land mobile support for the proposed rule change, which would provide additional opportunities for deployment of digital systems in this band.” EWA also raised concerns about a proposal that TV Channels 14-20 be repurposed for broadband since “this spectrum is heavily used by business enterprise, commercial and public safety entities in 11 key markets” in the U.S., the filing said.