The language in rules for cell signal boosters proposed by...
The language in rules for cell signal boosters proposed by Verizon Wireless and Wilson Electronics “incorporates technical restrictions appropriate for a market made up of first-generation equipment” but not for later iterations of equipment, representatives of Nextivity said in a…
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meeting at the FCC. Booster maker Wilson and Verizon offered a proposal last summer (CD July 27 p5), which has gotten considerable attention since, as the FCC seeks to craft rules. Nextivity said today there are three generations of boosters, including “Smart Repeaters from vendors such as Nextivity,” which are “carrier grade, mass deployable, consumer installable devices that are unconditionally network safe and offer larger coverage footprints.” Rules proposed by Verizon and Wilson on noise, gain and out-of-band emissions would “adequately ensure that first-generation wideband boosters could operate without harm to the networks but would unnecessarily stifle the implementation of advanced, band-select boosters -- second and third generation boosters -- thus denying consumers the significant expanded coverage and cost benefits of next generation boosters, without any concomitant benefit of increased network protection,” Nextivity said (http://xrl.us/bm4der).