Vulcan Wireless said the FCC should reject claims by AT&T...
Vulcan Wireless said the FCC should reject claims by AT&T made in a paper by Jeffrey Reed and Nishith Tripathi of Reed Engineering saying band class distinctions are needed to protect 700 MHz operations from interference (http://xrl.us/bnsmqx). “Using Band 12…
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devices in lieu of Band 17 devices will not cause harmful interference to consumers,” Vulcan said (http://xrl.us/bnv7jn). “AT&T’s latest submission to the contrary … simply is not credible. Their analysis lacks rigor and incorporates unreliable and previously refuted data.” The AT&T paper offers no original testing, Vulcan said. “Instead, they used unreliable laboratory data that real-world engineering studies and analyses have consistently refuted,” the filing said. “In response to the exhaustive field measurements and laboratory tests that the proponents of interoperability have submitted, Reed and Tripathi offer four arguments against interoperability. None of these assertions are persuasive, several of their statements are false, and at least one of their claims actually supports restoring interoperability in the 700 MHz band.” Trey Hanbury and Chris Termini, lawyers for Vulcan, said on a Friday blog post (http://xrl.us/bnv7ko) that the AT&T arguments remind them of the University of Alabama men’s basketball team, which got psychic help from a student who became known as “The Face.” The student, “Jackson Blankenship attended Crimson Tide men’s basketball games armed with an oversized cardboard cutout of his own face holding an alarmed expression designed for one purpose: to make opposing team players miss their shots,” they wrote. “Having recently appeared on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and in a video gone viral, Blankenship is now infamous for his ability to distract. This brings to mind the FCC’s proceeding to determine whether to restore interoperability in the Lower 700 MHz band, where AT&T has recruited its own Jackson Blankenship by employing two individuals -- Jeffrey Reed and Nishith Tripathi -- who serve no other purpose than to distract the FCC from what has been demonstrated time and again: Interoperable devices are at no greater risk of harmful interference from Channel 51 or Lower E block transmissions than are non-interoperable devices.” An AT&T spokesman cited Oct. 4 (http://xrl.us/bnv7pu) and Sept. 13 blog posts (http://xrl.us/bnv7pw) in response to the Vulcan filing.