The FCC should reject arguments by the GPS Industry Council...
The FCC should reject arguments by the GPS Industry Council that the agency adopt GPS-specific technical requirements in its ongoing AWS-4 proceeding, CTIA said in an ex parte filing at the commission. “CTIA noted that GPS operations, located at 1559-1610…
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MHz band, are nearly 400 MHz away from the lowest point of the proposed AWS-4 spectrum located at 2000-2020 MHz,” the filing said (http://xrl.us/bn39su). “Given this wide separation, it is highly unlikely transmitters operating in AWS-4 spectrum pose any interference risk to GPS. CTIA also explained that the proposed 43 + 10 log10(P) dB of attenuation proposed in the AWS-4 NPRM is completely consistent with past FCC regulation of out of band emissions -- and has not led to any reports of harmful interference."