Vulcan Wireless said it’s time for the FCC to restore device interoperability...
Vulcan Wireless said it’s time for the FCC to restore device interoperability in the lower 700 MHz band. In a letter to the commission posted Friday, Vulcan said doing so would be relatively simple and straightforward. “More than three years…
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have passed since the Commission first received a petition seeking resolution to the severe deployment obstacles that have resulted from the unprecedented and unforeseeable creation of two overlapping band specifications for the Lower 700 MHz band,” the carrier said (http://xrl.us/bod58q). “Restoring Lower 700 MHz interoperability can be accomplished through a number of alternative routes at minimal cost. However, as Vulcan has previously explained, the Commission need not decide which of these alternatives is best. Rather, it need only specify that, by a date certain, all devices capable of operating on any paired spectrum block in the Lower 700 MHz band be capable of operating across all paired spectrum blocks in the Lower 700 MHz band. Consequently, industry can then jointly determine whether achieving interoperability should be accomplished through either Band Class 12, expansion of Band Class 17, or incorporation of a ‘dual band’ mobile device solution."