The FCC Wireless Bureau granted McDonough, Georgia, a waiver, letting...
The FCC Wireless Bureau granted McDonough, Georgia, a waiver, letting it use a channel normally reserved for two-way communications to read water meters. The city had previously received a license to use the 952.56875 MHz channel for meter reading and…
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had invested $876,000 in equipment, the bureau said. But in 2013, the city let the license expire, the bureau said in a Friday order (http://bit.ly/1rkcMZV). An FCC reminder letter to renew the license “was addressed to a former City administrator who had retired seven years earlier, and ... the letter had not made its way to anybody else who was currently working for the City,” city officials told the bureau. The bureau said “while we do not condone or excuse the City’s failure to renew its license, under the unusual circumstances of this case, we believe it would be inequitable and unduly burdensome to require McDonough to replace its water meter equipment to operate on a new frequency.”