EWA Says Nonpublic Safety Groups Qualified To Coordinate 4.9 GHz Operations
The Enterprise Wireless Alliance took exception to a recommendation in an APCO report from its 4.9 GHz Task Force for better frequency coordination for the band. EWA was on a working group that drew up the report, the group said…
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in a letter filed in FCC docket 07-100. EWA agrees coordination will “prompt more intensive and more effective use of the 4.9 GHz band,” it said. But EWA disagrees with the report's recommendations that only public safety organizations should be frequency coordinators for the band, the group said. “EWA is prepared to implement whatever frequency coordination requirements the FCC might adopt at 4.9 GHz and is confident that it will handle such analyses at least as competently as any [public safety] coordinator,” EWA said. “Access to competitive coordination choices will be particularly important should the FCC expand the eligibility at 4.9 GHz to promote its more efficient use.”