Tests Progeny performed on a joint basis with three other...
Tests Progeny performed on a joint basis with three other parties examining whether the company’s Multilateration Location and Monitoring Service (M-LMS) network would cause harmful interference to unlicensed devices in the 902-928 MHz band (CD Dec 26 p13), raise concerns…
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for utilities, the Utilities Telecom Council said in comments filed at the FCC. “The test reports show that Progeny’s operations will substantially degrade the operational performance of millions of smart grid devices,” UTC said (http://xrl.us/bn73nk). “It will also undermine substantial investments -- including $4.5 billion in Federal smart grid grants -- which utilities and others have made in these operations. Moreover, federal policies to promote the deployment of smart grid will be frustrated, if Progeny causes widespread interference to smart grid communications.” Questions remain about whether the system would interfere with the E·ZPass system used by 24 toll agencies in 14 states, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority said. “The NJTA relies on the FCC to protect its systems operation against harmful interference from entities requesting to use the same spectrum by requiring the entities to provide evidence in the form of technical analyses to show that their operations will not interfere with existing operations” (http://xrl.us/bn73n7).