The fight over Progeny’s pursuit of a waiver to offer...
The fight over Progeny’s pursuit of a waiver to offer advanced location services in its 900 MHz Multilateration Location and Monitoring Service spectrum has big implications for “a proceeding you probably never heard about,” Public Knowledge Senior Vice President Harold…
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Feld said in a blog post (http://bit.ly/13K2shp). Feld recounted the long history of the band. “Part of the problem is that once Progeny goes live, no individual user of unlicensed devices has any protection from increased interference. That’s the trade off for unlicensed,” he said. “On the plus side, it’s cheap, ubiquitous, and completely flexible. On the downside, you get no protection from interference. Worst case, if it turns out the FCC is wrong and Progeny does cause ‘unacceptable levels of interference (whatever that means),’ the unlicensed users have no recourse. Progeny going live could wipe out a huge chunk of the investment in smart grid (and smartmeters generally), kill a couple of hundred million dollars in investment by the oil and gas industry, drive WISPs out of urban areas, and kill a whole bunch of consumer product lines,” he said.