Last week’s FCC order requiring Towerstream forfeit $202,000...
Last week’s FCC order requiring Towerstream forfeit $202,000 for willfully and repeatedly generating “unacceptable and potentially life threatening” interference to the Federal Aviation Administration’s Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (CD Aug 7 p14) “signals the agency’s apparent intent to impose increasingly…
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greater penalties on broadband providers using devices in unlicensed spectrum bands which interfere with other wireless systems,” said Davis Wright lawyer K.C. Halm. “This order is one in a series of recent enforcement actions against broadband service providers using 5 GHz unlicensed ... devices which allegedly interfered with government radar systems,” wrote the lawyer for competitive telco, VoIP and ISP companies on the law firm’s blog (http://bit.ly/17k25bK). “While the FCC’s prior enforcement actions have increased in number, they have not included penalties of the size imposed upon Towerstream. Thus, the agency appears to be signaling its intent to escalate penalties to deter other providers from interfering with these radar systems.”