Public Knowledge Senior Vice President Harold Feld said...
Public Knowledge Senior Vice President Harold Feld said the FCC shouldn’t adopt a presumption against unlicensed mobile operations on Channel 37 so that the wireless medical telemetry service (WMTS) is protected. “The Commission should, at this early stage, avoid overly…
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conservative presumptions that would preclude access to necessary spectrum for broadband use -- particularly in urban markets,” Feld said in a filing (http://bit.ly/1pf1Qar) posted Thursday in docket 12-268. The question of how white spaces devices and WMTS “can best share Channel 37 should be resolved by engineering data submitted in the record,” Feld said. GE Healthcare earlier asked the FCC to reconsider its “arbitrary and capricious decision” to allow the unlicensed use of TV Channel 37 (http://bit.ly/1ARjJ4s). GE Healthcare is one of the main companies promoting WMTS. GE, the WMTS Coalition and others also met with FCC officials on the issue in recent days, said an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/1uKegdP). The main focus was “mathematical and other errors” in FCC analysis of whether unlicensed mobile base stations would cause interference with WMTS if allowed to use Chanel 37, said the WMTS promoters.