The Enterprise Wireless Alliance urged the FCC in a filing...
The Enterprise Wireless Alliance urged the FCC in a filing at the commission to allow broad use of the 4.9 GHz band, on a coordinated basis, by companies needing more spectrum for internal communications. Public safety wants the band to…
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remain set aside primarily for its use alone (CD Nov 1 p13). “The Alliance proposes that the 4.9 GHz band be made available for all private internal systems -- those that are used to meet internal communications requirements only and that are not used to provide service to third parties on a for-profit basis,” EWA said (http://xrl.us/bnxmzr). There’s no reason not to allow use of the band by “entities providing air transportation, bus service, trucking and package transport, heavy construction, agricultural [sic], manufacturing of a variety of goods critical to the health, safety, and property of the American public, and similar services,” EWA said. “Each of these types of enterprises maintains facilities at which they could make productive, intensive use of 4.9 GHz spectrum for the same types of activities for which the band is used by public safety entities. They should be afforded primary eligibility in this band."