Wireless Strategies, Inc. (WSI) defended its September petition for reconsideration,...
Wireless Strategies, Inc. (WSI) defended its September petition for reconsideration, asking that license applicants be allowed to decide on the optimum performance specifications and the size of antennas not meeting Category A performance standards, as long as they comply with…
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FCC Rules 101.103 and 101.115(f). Verizon and Verizon Wireless had asked the FCC to reject the petition (http://xrl.us/bn77c5). “The Commission correctly determined that eliminating the minimum Category B standards for Fixed Service microwave links, as WSI proposed, would authorize the deployment of inefficient antennas and would ‘result in an increased potential for interference and make it more difficult for other licensees to share spectrum,'” Verizon said. Verizon also said WSI’s petition “supplies no valid ground for the Commission to reconsider that determination.” “Removing the unneeded and arbitrary Category B specifications from Rule 101.115 will still permit the safe use of small optimized antennas, finally permitting licensees to safely and cost-effectively provide broadband to the millions of un-served and underserved communities and to enterprise and backhaul markets,” WSI said (http://xrl.us/bn77dh). “In doing so, the Commission would take the next step in advancing microwave backhaul and access."