800 MHz Applicants Should Be Free To Choose a Frequency Advisory Committee, EWA Says
The Enterprise Wireless Alliance asked the FCC to find that applicants for licenses in the 800 MHz interstitial channels should be free to select any frequency advisory committee (FAC) to do the coordination. The FCC proposed in February that it…
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allow new, full-power, interstitial 12.5 kHz offset channels in the 809-817/854-862 MHz bands (see 1502090034), as proposed by EWA in 2009. “In the future, when the industry receives a green light from the FCC to proceed, conducting frequency coordination for the 319 Mid-Band 800 MHz interstitial channels will require awareness of both embedded and proposed system technologies, as well as sophisticated adjacent channel analyses in order to mitigate the potential for system degradations to both incumbents and applicants proposing to utilize the interstitial channels,” said EWA CEO Mark Crosby in a news release Wednesday. “The processes are the same whether the applicant is a business enterprise, critical infrastructure or public safety entity.” A public safety coordinator has no “special knowledge” that a business/industrial/land transportation (B/ILT) coordinator lacks, he said.