Boeing proposed the FCC allow “safe harbors” for experimental uses...
Boeing proposed the FCC allow “safe harbors” for experimental uses of spectrum conducted at carefully controlled test facilities. “Major manufacturing and research and development companies such as Boeing depend on experimental licenses to develop new products, and depend on a…
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rapid and responsive experimental licensing process to permit continued innovation,” the company said in a filing Wednesday in docket 10-236 (http://xrl.us/bm54yt). “Despite the fact that Boeing’s experimental operations are generally at very low power levels, for short durations, and in remote locations, Boeing has experienced growing difficulties securing coordination from wireless licensees. Often, coordination requirements are significantly out of proportion with any interference risks, and coordination demands have complicated Boeing’s testing programs, delaying and sometimes preventing tests from occurring.” The FCC should allow safe harbors with rules similar to those for experimental licenses approved for universities and innovation zones, “including the establishment of specified geographic locations with pre-authorized boundary conditions beyond which emissions may not exceed non-interfering levels,” Boeing said. “Experimental licensees (both public and private) operating under a coordination safe harbor would still apply for individual experimental licenses, but, upon meeting the safe harbor conditions, would be exempt from coordination requirements.” In 2010, the Office of Engineering and Technology sought comment on a proposal to allow greater flexibility in the agency’s experimental licensing rules (http://xrl.us/bm54yx).