The FCC’s Wireless and Public Safety bureaus offered further clarification...
The FCC’s Wireless and Public Safety bureaus offered further clarification on an April 26 public notice suspending the acceptance and processing of certain applications for Part 22 and Part 90 services operating in the T-band (470-512 MHz). “We clarify that…
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applications that seek to add or change locations are suspended only if the new location extends the station’s authorized interference contour in any direction,” the notice said (http://xrl.us/bna9yt). “Locations may be added or changed if the new site does not increase the licensed contour.” The suspension applies “to any application that seeks to add a new channel to the authorization, whether the channel is a replacement or is being added to existing channels,” the notice said. “The purpose of the freeze is to stabilize the existing spectrum landscape. Allowing licensees to alter their active frequencies in the T-Band would be inconsistent with this purpose and would lead to an unpredictable and unstable spectral environment. This approach is consistent with prior filing and processing suspensions.” The bureaus also clarified that “applications that seek to add or change an emission type (the last three characters of the emission designator) are suspended only if the licensee also proposes to increase the authorized bandwidth. Emission types may be added or changed so long as the emission remains within the existing authorized bandwidth, even if the new emission type nominally expands the station’s spectral footprint."