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The FCC Wireless Bureau will let a subsidiary of electric utility Pepco install seven fixed locations in Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey to support Pepco’s smart grid. The bureau issued an order Monday giving PHI a waiver to make use…

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of Automated Maritime Telecommunications System spectrum for inland communications. But since AMTS spectrum is located to broadcast TV spectrum used by channels 10 and 13, the bureau stipulated that the operations must not result in harmful interference to broadcast TV (http://bit.ly/1n8u6hd). PHI plans to control interference “by operating with less power than permitted by the AMTS rules and using directional antennas to ensure that signals remain within the master station contours, and concludes that its proposed operations will cause no interference to television reception,” the bureau said. “While we do not agree in every particular with the methodology of PHI’s engineering study, we conclude that PHI’s unopposed proposed deployment does not appear to have any potential interference issues.”